I don't normally dispense unasked advice, but I feel I should make a public service announcement ( Read more... )

It is a very funny thing, trying to make introductions. You are determined to make a good impression, to put your best foot forward, without knowing a single thing about the other person, where they are coming from, or what they are thinking. So it's even more awkward, I'm finding, to say hello when it's very clear that more morose topics are ( Read more... )

Unpacked, finallyOf course now that everything strewn across my bedroom, I'm contemplating repacking some of it. Like my pile of sweaters, for example, of which I find that I have too many, and they are out of season (particularly the blue ones with the snowmen; hardly July wear). I think those I shall slide back under my bed ( Read more... )