Dear Q, How is it possible that this picture, at the best 21st birthday party ever (sunflowers + live music + beer + magic light = heaven) was taken sixteen years ago? No, no, no. Impossible. Also impossible: that bleached jeans and huge nubby sweaters ever seemed like good sartorial choices to me! I wrote [...]
I’ve watched this many times now. Each time I end up with tears rolling down my face. It’s worth the time to watch it. We all need someone who thinks we’re truly amazing. I know this as much as I know anything. I think, again, to Bindu’s excellent post several months ago that said clearly [...]
Happy Birthday, Hadley Sending you all my love, halfway across the country, and looking forward to seeing you in a few weeks. We met 14 years ago this fall, which seems amazing to me. You were – and are – so impeccably elegant that it took me a long time to believe that there was, [...]
I had lunch on Sunday with four of my dear friends from college. Everybody had a baby with them: one 4.5 month old, 2 2 month olds, and 1 baby in utero 2 days overdue. I had Grace. All of these friends have older children, but on Sunday it was striking to me to look [...]
“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it’s no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.” (Elizabeth Strout, Abide With Me ) I have fallen out of touch with an old and dear friend with whom I shared [...]
This weekend was my 10th reunion from business school. I’ve been reflective, thinking about the choice to get my MBA, about the two years I spent on campus, and about what the experience has meant to me since graduating. I did not attend much of the formal reunion, only going to my section dinner on [...]
This weekend in New Hampshire: Number of my godchildren I got to hang out with: 2 Number of children with an eye almost swollen shut bc of bug bites on Sunday am: 2 Number of children sleeping past 6:30am: 1 (total number of children): 8 Number of mothers drenched to the skin in the water [...]
Memory. Where to start? I’ve written so much about it. About the mysterious alchemy whereby small moments, inconsequential as we lived them, become significant, weighty memories, full of recollected details. About the way that certain songs can transport me back, instantly and vividly, to the past. About the occasional awareness of the memory of a [...]
Courage. I’ve been thinking about this word, this concept, this idea, all weekend. Trying to figure out what to share for this inaugural Five for Ten post. Certainly I don’t feel I have much, so that was easy to dismiss. I kept coming back, over and over again, to Susie. Susie was like a mother [...]
The first two children of the 402-403 Forbes family, summer 2003 and spring 2010. Grace and Tate, age 1 and age 7. Long may they – and we all – be friends. I love you, Court.
