Tag: Again

I can’t remember what I was originally looking for at the back of my closet. What I was looking for doesn’t matter because this story is about what I found. As I was moving my hanging clothes out the way, my hand brushed against something hard in a suit coat. I pinched the object and ...

So I am starting to feel more confident than ever that there is no way in this world that Donald Trump can win in November. I’ve been saying for the longest time now that his base has shrunk, leaving him mostly just the craziest of the crazies; that the math doesn’t work, and that it&rsq...

Blogging platform Medium (yes, this one) is no exception, except maybe that their troubles have gone on longer: the company announced layoffs in both 2021 and 2022. The platform has been described by its own writers as slowly dying. And yet — the opposite might be t...

Mom is still here and doing fine. We have been out a couple of times now, but not to the big, touristy sites. Yesterday’s stop was the main branch of the Vancouver Public Library, which — to be fair — is a lovely building, with a roof garden and patio on the 9th floor. It’s q...

As we came into Ben Gurion Airport, the skies opened — thunder, lightning and rain! And of course, the plane stopped in the middle of the tarmac and we had to be bussed to the terminal. The whole planeload of passengers fitted onto one bus! I should have seen this storm as an omen of things to...

I’m staying in a room on Airbnb by August, a week after today. Today I had a viewing appointment. The house is located in West London and the city is well known as very popular for Japanese based in London. During texting with D, an agent staff, said that she had to close the ad earlier bec...

This past Friday, I landed back in Boston after a two-and-a-half-week vacation in Ireland. As our plane descended into the lush and rolling lands of this “emerald isle,” I sighed and thought, yes, there actually do seem to be forty shades of green here. My husband is a great...

When I glance at the fading tape on my water bottle, I realize that the words are fading just as quickly as my memories of living abroad. My roommate in Spain made name tags out of blue duct tape to mark all of our doors in the apartment. Her nickname for me, “Kail Bail,” is almost unrea...