grownups

fear

January 28, 2010

For the first time today, I really missed my old job. I got an email from a friend and former coworker about her visit to the office where we used to work, to have lunch with people we used to work with. Reading her note, the pang of remorse I felt came as a complete [...]

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risk

September 30, 2009

Our boys are so different from each other. They’re similar in some ways, too — they look a lot alike, they both wake up at the asscrack of dawn, they’re both pretty happy kids. But in many ways they are just very different people. One such difference is how they approach taking risks. Owen — [...]

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who am i?

August 10, 2009

There are many mes. (I refuse to use an apostrophe for a word that is neither possessive nor a contraction, but the plural of “me” does look very strange.) I don’t mean in a clinical, multiple personality disorder sort of way. Rather, I wear different faces/hats/pants in different aspects of my life. Maybe it’s more [...]

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as one door closes

June 11, 2009

I learned Monday I no longer have a job. I’ll spare you the technicalities and simply say that after 12 years at the same company, working up from an entry level job through the ranks to Senior Manager, in a few weeks I will be unemployed. In fact, other than cleaning out my office and [...]

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to my wife on our anniversary

June 1, 2009

Dearest Lisa, We’ve been married seven years today. Seven years ago we stood up at West End Collegiate Church in New York City and pledged our love for each other in front of everyone. And we didn’t mention Jesus because I didn’t want to and you said that was OK. And then we walked/floated out [...]

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old school

April 30, 2009

Owen is already learning you can’t go home again, even if he doesn’t understand that yet. We’ve had pretty good child care luck. When Owen was born in 2005, Lisa took seven months off. (Before you get all excited and start applying for her job, this was seven months without pay. Lisa’s an opera stage [...]