In the past few weeks, I’ve had some interesting conversations with old friends. In one case my personal recollections of being painfully shy and forever in the background turned out to be a bit out of sync with how they remembered me. It was true that I wasn’t as involved as they were in that group of people (job related) because I was still finishing my degree and I was tightly connected with my university friends. But I wasn’t as invisible as I’d imagined. The crowd at work came from far and wide and bonded. I saw myself on the
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Now that I’m back in the land of the living—or closer to normal life in the city I call home—I’m out and about interacting with many more people. I’m noticing an uptick in mean-spirited thoughts. I’ve caught myself hoping that the guy riding his bike on the sidewalk (not Okay if you’re over the age of 12) would fall off his bike before he rolls over a dog’s paws or crashes into a pedestrian. At a museum exhibit opening party, I caught myself thinking, “did she really need to wear that?” And, when I desperately needed a coffee in a
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