Author Archives: jthere

This week i celebrated my birthday with a visit from my BFF S. It was so great to have a good friend here and have a few days to hang out and catch up. I crave time with friends and having her here helped me feel less alone. On my birthday we went into theContinue reading “another year around the Sun”

I lost about a hundred pounds in one day and it felt great. The organizer/declutterer came on Wednesday and we worked together for four hours. I was expecting to just I tackle the upstairs front porch but we also made it through our bedroom. We got rid of a lot! Five big bags of trashContinue reading “letting go”

I just spent the day in the city, most of it in Brooklyn with two old friends, and it was invigorating and transporting to have a day off. I feel grateful to have been uprooted from what has become an all too familiar routine. I’ve fallen into a rut without really realizing it and havingContinue reading “a break from routine”

This week an organizer/declutterer who was highly recommended came by and I showed her our upstairs front porch (my office and storage) and our mess of a bedroom. She clearly had seen worse – she didn’t flinch – which made me feel a little better at sharing something so private, and shameful in a way.Continue reading “lighten up”

“Things fall apart, the center cannot hold .”Yeats was not talking about getting older yet he could have been. T had his first eye surgery this week. He still cannot see out of the operated eye and needs to go back next week to check; if it hasn’t cleared he likely will need a cornealContinue reading “both/and – on being positive”

The weather has been glorious this week. It’s springtime and the trees are magically blooming, at least it feels magical, that the little park near our house with its dozen or so cherry trees by the playground are all abloom. Yet the trees so quickly change, in the course of the last week the magnoliaContinue reading “going places”

There is a saying, “If you’ve met one person with autism you’ve met one person with autism.” As with all of us, we are each unique. And yet people frequently make assumptions about the similarities of those on the spectrum while downplaying the vast differences. Take for example, my friend C, whose son N hasContinue reading “If you’ve met one person…”

It’s the month of trees’ flowering buds and suddenly longer days and pi/pie day and lots and lots of basketball, with the occasional great underdog story, a Farleigh Dickinson or Princeton with unexpected wins. Yes, I know it’s hard to imagine Princeton as an underdog but so be it in basketball world where places likeContinue reading “March movement”

I was in DC for the weekend thanks to a generous invite from my sister-in-law C (T’s sister), who was in from Seattle for a conference and came a few days prior so we could spend the weekend together. I took the train down from Newark, a pleasant civilized way to travel, where I satContinue reading “DC-turismo”

I went to BAM (the Brooklyn Academy of Music) this week to see Pina Bausch Dancetheatre Wuppertal. Bausch was a German choreographer who died in 2009 and there is still a company that performs her work. I’ve seen them every time they’ve come to Brooklyn since I was about 25 so I’ve been to aContinue reading “time in the dark”