Category: The Mix
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ask me about covid
On Tuesday morning, November 10, my husband found out he was positive for COVID-19. But before that, he tested negative on November 5. And before that he played golf with a friend on October 31 who had COVID and didn’t know it yet. By November 12, I just “wrote off” the entire month. I took…
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birthday blues
This weekend would have been my big 50th birthday bash. My friend Mindy and I had started discussing our joint birthday party last January. Her birthday is November 4 and mine is December 1. We were shooting for a date between our birthdays in November, hiring a band, reserving a venue and inviting 150 or…
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sourdough days
In August, I was having lunch with a friend and we had not seen each other since before the world was turned upside down by Covid. We talked about the normal updates: Are your kids away at school or online from home? Is your husband working from home? Are you going crazy? Then, she told…
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it’s the gift that counts: the husband’s response
(Note: This post is a response to the post below it. It may make sense to read “it’s the gift that counts” before reading “the husband’s response.”) The readers of this blog will know me as an eternal pessimist, concerned first and foremost about how easily things can go wrong, and waiting for the other…
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it’s the gift that counts
Next week is my 23rd anniversary. A week ago, I spied a text from my husband to my daughter where he was fishing for ideas for anniversary gifts. That text made me realize how far we have come as a couple in terms of gift giving and how it is still such a precarious process.…
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what goes around…
In a previous post (“postcards from zoom”), I described how I was enjoying the humor that resulted when my kids attempted to provide tech advice to my parents. It is fun to laugh about how my parents can’t figure out how to change the wallpaper on their phone, find a podcast or use Netflix. I…
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getting to know work husband
For the last 12 weeks, I have been slowly getting to know someone new. His name is Work Husband and he spends his days in our dining room which is now referred to as his office. Work Husband gets up later than he used to and is generally less stressed around the house when he…
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streaming in place
Support Team Mandy sent this text the other day, “So fun—I can come to a socially distanced happy hour instead of arguing more with Craig about our next Netflix show.” Clearly, my husband and I are not the only ones having trouble lining up our media watching plans. We are regularly having the following conversation:…
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six degrees of reality tv
I am hoping that most of you are familiar with the game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.’ For the minority readership who are under 35 years old, the idea of the game is that Kevin Bacon (an actor) can be connected by every other actor in Hollywood by six other actors at most. This game…
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deep in denial
On Sunday morning February 23, my friend Heidi sent a startling email to a small group of friends. This is what she said: “Ladies, I hate to be an alarmist but I’ve been watching the progression of COVID-19 over the last month. It’s hit an inflection point over the last few days. It’s gonna be…
Do I have chalk on my face? by Denise Geschke 