I took Friday off because I had had two days in the prior week when I worked until 9:00 PM (even though I did work at home on Monday). On Wednesday I had to chair a pretty important meeting. On Thursday morning, I hoped to finish all the emails I had to send to place […]
Since Mark got retired, we decided to become domestic partners, so that we could use each other’s benefits sequentially. The way it works in WI is that you do an Affidavit for Domestic Partnership, state form ET-2371. Then you submit the form to the Dept. of Employee Trust Funds, the state agency that manages our […]
July 22nd is my mother’s yahrzeit – this year it’s been 9 years. I lit a candle in the crystal candle holder my mom and I bought at the Art Fair on the Square because we thought it would look good for Opa’s yahrzeit candle (tho in this pic, I’m using one of Oma’s candle-go-round […]
Mark’s dad died last Friday, and we got back from the funeral in North Carolina at about 10:00 p.m. last night. That’s why I was writing and obliterating my leek tart post in the Orlando airport on Sunday – we were on our way to NC. Had to get up at 3:45 a.m. on Sunday […]
They’re almost as old as me – Peter Buck, December 6, 1956 | Mike Mills, December 17, 1958 | Michael Stipe, January 4, 1960 | me, August 11, 1955. So, as I told my friend Chris, born in March of 1957, the same as my baby brother, “Well, we never woulda dated in high school, […]