hello lovelies. i know i have been hopelessly remiss of late, but i’ve been in perth on holiday since 9 days ago, and recovering from the recent craziness of work is a serious business that involves lots of swimming, running, hanging out with the boy and his family and friends, reading 4 books concurrently, catching [...]
“if we live to 26, we’ll push each other off a cliff, ok?”
agreed upon with the kind of flippance that comes with being seventeen, when adulthood was a far away place; like antarctica, real and irrelevant.
known of but not known.
do you think we knew? when we made that pact all those years ago, that this [...]
two weekends ago we were at a family dinner at my aunt’s. in the kitchen, at the “kids’ table”, erny, vincent, nels and i sat, full of food, trading our best laundry stories: tales of horror and heartache.
there were anecdotes of fathers who, with the addition of a rogue red t-shirts, turned whole washes [...]