by Mir | Dec 12, 2009 | Ottomatic For the People
I have this thing I say about marriage, and I’m sure there are some perfectly nice readers out there I am about to deeply offend with this, but I’m going to share it anyway so that you can kind of understand where I’m coming from. Here it is: I...
by Mir | Sep 29, 2009 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, Ottomatic For the People
A fairly standard thing for Otto and me to say to one another is: “You love me. But you have no idea why.” He says it to me when he’s just come up with a scheme for another clunker of a car he simply must have, or I say it to him when I’ve just...
by Mir | Apr 14, 2008 | Ottomatic For the People
Otto had a “work thing” this weekend, and by that I mean that I said goodbye to him on Thursday morning and other than the occasional in-the-wee-hours mumble of “what time is it? did you just get home?” we didn’t see each other again...
by Mir | Aug 27, 2007 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", The Year of Living Changerously
Despite a small segment of my readers’ seeming beliefs to the contrary, I don’t actually write about EVERYTHING. I write about LOTS of things, and I write about some stuff that I’m sure some people wish I wouldn’t, but this is but a small,...
by Mir | Aug 14, 2007 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", Offspring: ecstasy and agony
The first day of school was—if not a success—acceptable. Our school has what is supposed to be an orderly procedure for distributing children at the end of the day; there’s a web of driveway and parking lot areas that IN THEORY make for an optimal...