Thank you to Stephanie Springsteen and to all my writing colleagues and classmates and cohorts for inspiration and encouragement. When Stephanie saw my Facebook status recently: "I am back in Evanston wondering what is next," she commented, "Start writing." Oh yeah. Start writing; start blogging.
I returned from a trip to NYC late Sunday night. The last TIME I'd been there was over five years ago. The logos on the taxicabs are different. The graffiti on the walls of the subway cars is gone. Approximately, one of out every ten storefronts on the Upper East Side is vacant. There are more dogs being walked than people walking them (or walking themselves). The Catholic school girls' plaid skirts are really short.
I saw my best friend from college. The last TIME I'd seen her was in January 1993, sixteen years ago. She still works for the same economic development consulting firm, but is now married and is a mom. She and her husband were able to take TIME off from their respective jobs to spend seven weeks in Kazakstan in the summer of 2005 . At the end of that TIME they came home with a beautiful boy, Otis. I fell in love with him almost immediately, once he decided to crawl out from under the dining table and show me the remote controlled dinosaur who lives in the closet in his bedroom. TIME to go for now.
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