As of midnight on New Year's Eve, I only had one spoken-aloud resolution. "I want to take the time to sit and eat breakfast each morning before checking my email." It was a noble, if somewhat unambitious, goal. I've noticed that my heart races and I can't calm my mind…
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Our Christmas Card
Christmas cards and Christmas letters, chronicles of our year at a time of supreme reflection, appear to be a very American phenomenon. It's one I like. I have a box of cards collected over the years from my friends, and in the pictures I can see them fall in love.…
The Fiction Spectrum
The black digits blinked against the fluorescent orange background of our alarm clock. 1:30 a.m. All the bedroom lights were still on. Jonathan and I were sitting up and staring at each other across the rumpled down comforters. Our expressions were heavy, numb, the calm after a storm.…
A Wedding Ceremony Reading: Love is all in the look.
My best friend recently got married. I was Matron of Honor (or Best Woman, as the bride and I both prefer). Cindy and I have been friends for thirteen years, almost half our lifetime, and I know her better than many. Helping her plan things from half a world away…
What I love about Halloweentime
On September 22, Jonathan and I joined the rest of Oslo in celebrating the Autumnal Equinox. We followed the crowds down to the Akerselva River walk in Grünerløkka, and snapped photos all along the way . Night lowered itself over the city, flooding the winding river canal with shadows. Colorful light…
Running. A goal.
Today I went out to watch other people run the Oslo Marathon . It's a big event. In 2010 it attracted 16,000 runners, more than half of them women. People came from all over the world. It's a beautiful course, winding along the edge of the Oslofjord and then up…
The Imperatives of Travel
Jonathan and I travel because we want to see the whole world together, but we have our individual interests, too. He wants to climb every mountain. I want to see all the people. The farther I go, the more people I see and meet, the more convinced I am that…
Relocating
Somewhere there is a plane buzzing across an azure sky, a big one. It shuttles people across oceans, countries, continents. Most of those people are merely traveling, and having been one of them fairly frequently over the past six years, I envy them both the journey and the return home.…