'Life in General' Archive
Browsing le Boobtique
A large wall decal featuring a woman nursing twins used to hang over the breastfeeding aisle at the local baby boutique. She held one in each arm, like footballs.
The first time I saw this poster, a “woop” slipped from my lips. Renate rolled her eyes.
Breastfeeding doesn’t make me uncomfortable. I’m just a bit caught off-guard [...]
Raise the Drawbridge
“Ferris - he never drives it. He just rubs it with a diaper.”
When I turned 30 last September, both sides of the family kicked in to help me get a new bike as a present. Touched, I decided to wait until this spring to make the purchase; no need for the bike to sit in [...]
Date Night is Not Dead
Overheard in the line for movie tickets tonight: “One for Iron Man, one for Sex and the City.”
Neighbors
Eight years ago my folks moved to a county west of St. Louis where farmland still envelops pockets of strip malls. Suburbs spider out into the countryside, but feral cats played in my parents’ front yard and distant coyotes yowled at night.
Apparently the wild followed them back to the burbs in October; my dad awoke [...]
Your Fugitive’s Name Is…
We’re stuck on a plane at La Guardia airport, waiting for a ground stop in Chicago to lift so we can return home from a weeklong romp through the east coast. I’ve just seen Ja Rule in the airport terminal, and I figure this random sighting will provide me with some conversational fodder back home.
But [...]
Extreme Sleeper
This? This is nothing. You should hear about the time she bivouacked on a 90 degree rockface on Kilimanjaro with nothing more than a tarp and two climbing spikes.
Get to Know You Better
After a year of planning, two of my close friends quit their jobs last month to travel the country in search of a new home city — an undertaking that strikes me as remarkably brave, though completely in character.
Maybe you have friends like these; tirelessly curious, fearless, and fascinated by the aspects of everyday life. [...]
American Puts on its Dancing Shoes
Oh my. Does this mean people outside of the DC/New Jersey corridor will actually know where my alma mater is?
“Wait, they won?” came the response from one friend after I sent a celebratory text message following the game.
That reply sums up the past eight years, when American has flirted with a bid three times only [...]