January 2015, DC Metro Yellow Line: Just after L’Enfant station, the train jerked to a stop. It lurched and stalled again. It seemed like typical Metro — until smoke started seeping in. Curls wafted through the vents and door seams. First, it didn’t seem like a big deal, but it got thicker fast, and the…
When I graduated and moved after college, almost everything fit into two footlockers, except for skis and luggage stashed in the car. The minimalism didn’t last long. Despite moving on a regular basis, we quickly grew beyond that level of simplicity. And now, we’ve been settled in one place for almost eleven years, so not…
“There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.” – Mark Twain I’m sorry that I didn’t find out what spurred my parents to immigrate to the U.S.Or what it was like for them growing up in…
“One of the reasons people get old – lose their aliveness – is that they get weighed down by all of their stuff.” ~Richard Leider “There isn’t even room for a puppy to lie down.” That’s how one friend described our other friend’s house. Patty had a neurological episode, similar to a stroke. When it…
“In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. …What a wild, and rough, and stubborn wood this was, which in my thought renews the fear!” ― Dante, The Divine Comedy Many years ago, I was recently graduated, newly married, and…
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