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Coconut Pie
Today, on our final day in Virginia, I awoke with a migraine. This is typical for me following a stressful experience. It’s as if my...
Maggie
Feb 4, 20203 min read


Strong Enough
Last night, I slept 12-hours. Clearly, I’m still trying to overcome the sleep deficit that I dug for myself in the weeks leading up to...
Maggie
Feb 2, 20202 min read


A Daring Adventure
I woke up in the middle of the night. “I had a bad dream.” I said to Andrea. “What was it about?” Andrea asked, surprisingly alert in the...
Maggie
Jan 31, 20202 min read


Packing Up My Weird and Holy Shit Moments
The days have blended together. One into another. Indistinguishable. Like a cup of water that I’ve dipped a paintbrush in that I’ve been...
Maggie
Jan 30, 20203 min read


Score one for Sally!
Friday evening, Andrea and I drove to an enormous U-Haul store that was bursting with every imaginable moving supply you could dream of....
Maggie
Jan 19, 20203 min read
Benediction
Every day, there is some action to take to move the moving process forward. Emails and texts to reply to. Questions to ask. ...
Maggie
Jan 13, 20202 min read
Laugh Riot
Recently, Andrea and I read the fine print and the 31-page document that details the relocation package that was presented to Andrea when...
Maggie
Jan 11, 20202 min read


Life, Mother f**ker
The thing I love most about New Year’s Eve and day is how everyone is sending collective, positive energy into the universe. Raising the...
Maggie
Jan 6, 20204 min read


Let that Shit Go
This morning, an piercing sound rang through our home. It was the alarm that Andrea had purchased to sound when water was in the...
Maggie
Dec 31, 20192 min read
Little Black Cloud
The wheels loosened on the 2019 bus this fall. It seemed to begin with the infamous oil change where my transmission fluid was drained...
Maggie
Dec 30, 20191 min read


A Round of Shit Sandwiches
Early in December, my friend Joe, posted this to Facebook. And I had so many thoughts that I couldn’t even formulate a reply. Two days...
Maggie
Dec 15, 20193 min read
Like Stevie Wonder
Today Andrea and I went to the eye doctor. I’m fine, really. One day, I went to bed being able to read the back of over the counter...
Maggie
Dec 7, 20192 min read


We All Will Be Together
We decorated our Christmas tree today. We have a tradition of buying an ornament whenever we visit a place. This year, we acquired...
Maggie
Dec 1, 20192 min read


Friendship Love Truth
Yesterday we hosted what is most likely the last Thanksgiving at 5 Parkhurst Drive. My mother-in-law said this as we settled down for...
Maggie
Nov 29, 20193 min read


Surrender, Dorothy
“He got away! Which is more than you will. Drat you and your dog. You've been more trouble to me than you're worth, one way or another,...
Maggie
Nov 24, 20193 min read


Breathe Me
Once, while driving through Framingham, I saw a chimp on a leash. Only, when I got closer, it wasn’t a chimp at all. It was a dog on a...
Maggie
Nov 10, 20193 min read
Dear October: F You.
I haven’t blogged about life in general much because I’ve been too busy trying to crank out a personal essay a week for my writing class....
Maggie
Oct 28, 20193 min read


Boll Weevil
This is the second assignment for my personal essay class. We were to write about place and I attempted to capture how the experience of...
Maggie
Oct 27, 20196 min read

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