BeTwinned

[Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered]

  • You had me at the chocolate

    I confess it: I love Valentine’s Day.  I love the red outfits people wear, Valentine socks, Valentine cookies, vintage Valentines, making Valentines, corny Valentine jewelry, all of it.  It’s all an excuse to say, “I love you” to folks you care about, and I don’t see a problem with that. And I loved Google’s Doodle…

  • Pedal on, sister

    Sometimes I miss my California friends so much that my lungs hurt. When this happens, I take comfort in the fact that I am so much closer to many old friends and to family, too.  But this past summer, an old friend left Philly. She is not terribly far, but just far enough so that…

  • Whew! Got the shots

    My daughters got the first of their two H1N1 shots in school yesterday. I didn’t realize how anxious I was about H1N1 until my daughters came home from school with Band-Aids on their little shoulders and I felt a weight lift off my shoulders. When the news of the virus first hit, I tried to…

  • New York City, where the Internet is paved with gold

    Dwayne and I celebrated our anniversary last week — 8 years of marriage and 11 years of unwedded bliss before that, so, effectively, 19 years together. Happy! To celebrate, this past Saturday, we left our daughters with my sister for the afternoon and then with my mom overnight, and we headed to New York City…

  • Apparently, my cancer is travelling to the East Coast

    Now that I live in Pennsylvania, I have to find new oncologists, of course.  Recently, I spent a stunning amount of time on the phone getting registered with the docs at the University of Pennsylvania.  The doctors there in the breast cancer center are named “top docs” in a number of places, and they’re known…

  • Hair detergent, or What Happens When You’ve Lost Too Many Brain Cells

    Today I was chattering along with my husband as we headed to Target to get a few necessities for the week.  We were trying to make a list, and I remembered a conversation we had earlier in the week, when my husband said that we were running low on our daughters’ shampoo.  So, I asked…