Just now, my sweet (or: other half) emailed me because I had been missing Brazil. He said: "Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened."My reply: "I’ll try to remember that when you trade me in for a younger, more exotic, light hearted version of me."
moreI had one of those things you could call ‘a moment.’ A time-wharp kind of situation when various dimensions merge in some strange way. It was due to some incident on a blog I’m addicted to and can’t stop myself from commenting on. One of the other commentators made mention of a certain bar, one […]
moreI checked out a school for my two-and-a-half year old son. I hadn’t expected the following reaction to my question whether they had a waiting list:"Not in your case because your son is a 1.4 child." "What’s a 1.4 child?""It means we get 1.4 times the usual subsidy for him.""Why?""Because you were born in a […]
moreMy love and I passed a younger couple in love. She, head strong and confident. He, shy and clumsy. I said, "he looks like you. I mean, he looks like you a long time ago. Before I was writing even. That’s when you were still impressed by me."
moreOn the Olympic news yesterday, they showed footage of a Dutch three-time gold medal winner. When she won the first one eight years ago, she was ecstatic, even surprised. "Everything was so right, absolutely everything. And yes, that’s when you win a medal," she said. That comment is now haunting me.
moreNowadays, everyone writes. Everyone writes about writing. And everyone writes about how everyone writes about writing.
moreVoice. Inner voice. Authentic inner voice. Purely authentic inner voice. Style. Personal style. Individual personal style.Uniquely individual personal style. Tone.Genuine tone. Specific genuine tone.Divinely specific genuine tone. Write.Just write.Simply just write.Bloody hell simply just write.
moreYesterday, I saw my entire family on my father’s side. I hadn’t seen most of them for about five years. Nothing much had changed. My cousin summed it up on meeting my sister’s youngest child. He said, "so this is your third? How lovely. Well, this is my second wife." Today, I realized even the […]
moreMy son kneeled over a puzzle. He was looking at one of the pieces: a pear tree. The pears looked like little green drops. He said, "the tree is crying," gave me a huge smile and then went on to go about some other business.
moreUpon arriving at my office space this morning, I opened the blinds to discover two men had posted themselves outside my window. I waved at them and they jokingly asked whether I was opening up for coffee. It was an amiable start of the day. I hadn’t consciously registered they were wearing black suits. Neither […]
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