“May I call you Dental Claims Girl?” he asked, reaching around me to push the elevator button. “Only if I can call you 11th Floor Guy,” I replied, removing my gloves. “I have a name, you know,” he replied. I turned to look at him. “So do I.” He asked my name and said “Ah.… Continue reading

I got some Greek yogurt at the market this evening. I was just reading this morning how I could make some for myself and had gone to get the ingredients. Clearly I intended to make some for myself. I should mention that I do not, as a general rule, choose to make yogurt in my… Continue reading

I’m  doing badly at being balanced. I sort of feel like it’s leftover from before, really, as though I was already not doing the laundry so that fact that the laundry remains undone is just residual. However, this evening as I was being guilt-tripped quite effectively, I started to get that familiar feeling. “You’re just… Continue reading

I was running for a small period of time with a large German man. By small period I mean until it got cold. So… one week just before Thanksgiving, that’s how long I ran with him. M Marine was asking me about it during a recent long, tedious drive to Ohio. We had just finished… Continue reading

“You know, you should really leave soon,” he said to me. It was JJ calling from five floors down. “I’m leaving at noon, I’ll take you to your car. It’ll probably need to be scraped.” He was right, it would be in need of a good ice scraper. I agreed with him on that. “I… Continue reading