Author: Annie

It’s been an odd kind of weekend, everything seems slightly askew – a little bit out of control – but not in a scary way. Just in a slightly worrisome way. The kids were home on Thurs and Fri, which was good since there was a teasing and retaliation episode at Hannah’s school (Hannah was…

St. Paul, you are an amazing city. I try to hate you in the snow, but you’re so beautiful – I can’t stay mad at you… Yes, it’s snowed again. At least 2″, with 2″ more to come today. Happy Good Friday! At some point I’m sure Gerry will take the kids sledding (having them…

As we were driving home from the airport it started to snow. Gerry said it had been snowing off and on all day, but not sticking. Now it’s sticking. It’s 5:00 am, I went to bed SO early yesterday as I was just bushed, so now I’m up early. And it’s a winter wonderland outside!…

I’ve just enjoyed a lovely lunch, a very nice walk around this new, new, new area where the hotel is located (SO NEW! – a little scary, and VERY concret-eque, but definitely NEW) … and now I’m about to go up to my room to rest a bit. Rest. The blessedest word in the world….

I came to Virginia Beach when I was 10 to visit my uncle Jim Bob (aka, Max Hurl Williams – one of the people for whom my son, Max, is named…) and we had a great time! Crabbing, eating HUGE lobsters, running around the beach. Now I’m sort of tied to the hotel – and…

This will have to be fast because I’m nutsy busy – and teaching in 10 minutes! I would have posted last night, but I was so exhausted from travel, etc., and the internet reception from my room was pretty dismal. Having said that, I love the Hilton! It’s becoming one of my favorite hotel chains,…

I am so glad to be home, it’s hard to express my happiness. I loved being back in NJ, visiting friends, teaching (I love teaching) and meeting students. But it wasn’t home. I stayed in other homes, visited with amazing friends, ate and drank and laughed and cried – but it wasn’t home! I missed…

I keep having the weirdest sensation here. I’ll be at my old local Panera’s and I’ll look over at the Petco and think, “I have to pick up some dog treats for Atticus…” Then I remember. “Oh, yeah, we don’t live here anymore.” Or I’ll be walking around Whole Foods looking for some of the…

By far my largest expense yesterday was parking. PARKING! Lunch with my friend cost me almost $30 in parking. She’s in midtown, and I KNEW it would be so, so it wasn’t unexpected. It was an expense I was happy to make because the alternative would have been parking on the upper west side, two…

Today I’m at Knitty City – I start teaching in a half an hour and I’m having an iced tea at Cosi beforehand. Iced tea, because the weather is WARM here. It’s a moist, spring day in NYC – and it makes me homesick for this part of the country. When I left my friend’s…