April 12, 2017 (Wednesday)

April 11, 2018

Offspring’s birthday today. Of course I miss him, and we won’t be celebrating, really, because he’s not here anyway and we already went out for dinner last night after W. got home from his extended afternoon interview with [company B]. This morning, at 6:20a.m., he had an email – they decided for him by deciding […]

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April 11, 2017 (Tuesday)

April 10, 2018

This afternoon W. goes to [company B] for an extended interview and possibly a whiteboard / software hazing. All day yesterday we discussed, off and on, these developments (of company A’s offer and company B’s continued interest in pursuing W.), and I kept saying that it’s not going to be an easy decision. There are […]

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April 10, 2017 (Monday)

April 9, 2018

The sun is out. The sky is lightly streaked with fine, very thin wisps of clouds, barely there. Yesterday was the first really spring-like day, today promises to be slightly warmer. Seventies. Imagine. All the trees, however, are still completely bare. Not a single blossom, not a single leaf bud. If it weren’t for the […]

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April 9, 2017 (Sunday)

April 8, 2018

In just a few days A. turns 26, and I hope he celebrates. Sometimes I can’t quite fathom that I have grown children. …Scroll… ~~~ Yesterday, on the way home from Cambridge, W. and I stopped at Market Basket for groceries. The cashier suddenly asked me, “How tall are you?” I was wearing those brown […]

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April 8, 2017 (Saturday)

April 7, 2018

There’s no doubt that these morning exercises – the meditation followed by these pages here – provide my days with a great sense of beneficial structure. I suppose I notice it most when I’m not feeling at the top of my game, as it were. When I’m feeling a bit flat. This morning I feel […]

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April 7, 2017 (Friday)

April 6, 2018

The sun is out. The sky is still cloudy, though – but I like the variegated expanse more than the single texture, whether all clear, all blue, or all coated. I feel I’m being evasive here. I went to bed last night with the news of US airstrikes against Syria (and indirectly against Russia) ringing […]

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April 6, 2017 (Thursday)

April 5, 2018

Today I was up at the crack of dawn – by my lights, anyway, 6a.m. is dawn. There’s a trio of crows winging across the thickly clouded sky now, at 6:40a.m. Such a spongy texture, so soft, just a hint of the rains to come (or at least predicted). One crow remains, the other two […]

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April 5, 2017 (Wednesday)

April 4, 2018

Kind of a rough start to the morning, I’m now running behind as it were – were I to have anything to run behind… At about 4-something-a.m. I woke from a stupid dream involving conferences, airlines, steam rooms, horrible accommodations for disadvantaged moms who let their children go missing and who lived in a depressing […]

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April 4, 2017 (Tuesday)

April 3, 2018

I have a card, a reprint of a New Yorker cartoon by P. Steiner of two dogs, unleashed and un-humaned, walking side by side down a sidewalk bordered by a white picket fence with the quintessential dormered and clapboarded Cape behind, a deciduous tree, a shrub, and a pine tree in the yard. The dog […]

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April 3, 2017 (Monday)

April 2, 2018

A flock of Canada Geese flew past my bathroom window this morning, starting a perfect formation (albeit not yet reaching the classic “V”). I could see them approach in the mirror, at right angles to the window, as though they were flying one way, before seeing them fly the other way when I looked out […]

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