More Than Four Sides

Category: Miscellaneous

  • SUV mentality!!

    I drive a small car – a Chevy Volt: I like the agility of a small car, I like having the ability to park nearly anywhere. I also am committed to the idea of EVs – yes, my 2012 Volt is not 100% electric. It only goes about 30 miles on a full charge, and…

  • Notes on throwing parties…(found draft)

    I have neglected this blog for months/years, and recently returned to this space – I discovered this snippet was sitting as a draft since December 2018 (just over a year ago)… I like throwing parties.  I think I’ve posted about this before… Last night, I threw a Hanukkah/Housewarming party.  This is the third housewarming I’ve…

  • Clocking too many miles…

    Yesterday was a prime example of why I need to locate my home base in Rockville. I had the boys with me this weekend, and we had a great time (for the most part – we’re dealing with some pre-teen angst, and the occasional temper-tantrum on the other end). But yesterday included three round-trip journeys…

  • Thinking about Joe Frank…

    Joe Frank died last week. Oddly enough, I had been thinking about his remarkable radio show recently.  When I lived in Palo Alto, and was commuting over Highway 17 to finish my undergraduate degree at UC Santa Cruz, I used to listen to Joe Frank on either KQED or KAZU (I’m not sure whether they…

  • End of 2017…

    I don’t know about you, but my inbox is just overflowing with requests for donations…there are always a lot, but the past week has been an exercise in daily purging of requests for donations. Given that I am buying a house, and have several trips planned, including a trip in June with my boys to…

  • Next big thing…

    I’m buying a house. By myself. I’ve been a co-owner of a total of four homes in my life, but each time, I could rely on someone else to pay attention to all the details, and trust that we are making a sensible decision that we could afford. This time, it’s all on me, and…

  • Dancing in harmony with the universe

    I moved into my current apartment eight months ago and I initially had it neat as a pin, but then I got an influx of boxes and miscellaneous stuff as my ex cleared out the basement. I would have been happy to have him just chuck the stuff – one box is marked “Wedding mementos”…

  • Changing zip codes…

    I moved from the suburbs of Rockville to the upscale urban neighborhood of Federal Hill (Baltimore) a little over a year ago, on April Fool’s Day of 2016, and then, one year later, I moved again to a quieter and less pretentious address in Reservoir Hill in Baltimore. The reactions to my various residential addresses…

  • On the west coast… 

    I remember so many years, living in California, when I felt out of the loop because I was three hours behind my east coast friends, and eight hours behind my England folks, and immediate communication was not in the books. Living on the east coast, I am usually between the time zones,  meaning I can…

  • Memories of past lives

    I’ve been wandering around Palo Alto the past few days, seeking out my old haunts. And, seeking out my former residences. I had tallied 27 unique addresses that I had lived in for a minimum of 3 months, by the time I left home for college at the age of 17.