Do you ever have intense pangs of nostalgia for things that are happening RIGHT NOW? I just look at my kid -- trying out rollerblades, climbing the walls, growing out her bangs, asking complicated questions about human relationships, reading the world -- and sometimes I feel this overwhelming wistfulness that I don't quite understand and am not ( Read more... )

Someone in the elevator was wearing my mom's favorite perfume this morning. She was also wearing a suit my mom would have loved -- but she was my age, which is probably the age she was when I imprinted on that perfume.

My current favorite reusable coffee mug at work looks like a disposable paper cup. I actually love drinking out of the squishy ( Read more... )