The time I set aside for blogging today dissipated into the multiple efforts required to prevent a family problem from evolving into a family catastrophe, the routine, mind-numbing chores necessary to feed and clothe those same family members, and a couple of hours spent reconstituting myself by re-reading the letters Julie1 sent me before our [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Julie Showalter'
Julie, Nicholas Nickleby, And Me
May 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Julie Showalter
The Julie Memento Paradigm
The discovery of this Nicholas Nickleby Playbill marks the latest instance of what has become a recurrent pattern: in the midst of my search for an item or bit of information I need acutely, I find instead something associated with Julie.1 A couple of hours later, I realize I’ve been fixated [...]
The Two Rules For An Outrageously Wonderful Relationship With A Woman
May 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Aha! Items, Julie Showalter
Luck And Desperation As Learning Tools
I first learned these rules as a result of my impossibly good luck in finding Julie,1 falling in love with her, and then – 9 years, 2 husbands, 1 wife, 4 cross-country moves, and 2 careers later – beginning an outrageously wonderful 20 years together with her until her death [...]
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