Weekend Wanderer
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Weekend Wanderer: Why Are We Here?
So the lipstick was missing, and Willie and I were wandering in Target. Willie is my mom, if you’re new around here. Well, she’s my…
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Weekend Wanderer: The Lipstick
“I need,” Willie texted me in early February, “lipstick. Can you take me to the store? Also, is my birthday the 17th or 18th? Listen…
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Weekend Wanderer: A Treasure Found Too Late
We should do a Willie check. Well, I should do a Willie check. You should focus on getting your mind out of the gutter because…
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Weekend Wanderer: How Far Can a Marriage Bend?
There’s a fight in my house. It’s ugly, this fight. Insults slung. Parties insisting an opinion — an opinion — is wrong. Well, yes. I’ve…
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Weekend Wanderer: Let’s Take Off Our Pants
I have a best friend. Like any best friend, she has changed my life. Small ways. Big ways. In-between ways. One such change is recent.…
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Weekend Wanderer: The Scourge of Parallel Parking
Can we all agree parallel parking, um, sucks? It’s not that I can’t parallel park. Parallel parking is one of the few skills I will…
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Weekend Wanderer: I Went to the Outdoor Show
“Do you want to go to the Outdoor Show?” This was my husband, who makes time every February to work a booth at the Great…
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Weekend Wanderer: Take the Stairs
I remember, once, a cousin of my husband’s spent a semester studying in Europe. “That’s great!” her dad said when she told him. “Let’s go…
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Weekend Wanderer: My Turn to Fill the Tank
Let’s talk about cars. I know nothing about them. So I guess I’ll catch you guys next week. Bye. Yes. My car game is that…
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Weekend Wanderer: It’s Up to You, New York
I’m tired of talking about Willie. But probably not as tired as you are of hearing about her. So let’s change the subject. There’s that…
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Weekend Wanderer: With Friends Like These …
As you might imagine, Willie’s friends — a cohort of fellow independent-living cronies — were aghast at Willie’s move to memory care. Even if it…
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Weekend Wanderer: Memory Care or Assisted Living?
So I walked Willie to memory care, a meandering journey through the independent living building to the joint assisted living/memory care building at the Temple…
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Weekend Wanderer: The Trek to Memory Care
So where were we? Oh yes. The Upper Moreland police found Willie standing on the corner of Byberry and Davisville Roads on a blustery night…
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Weekend Wanderer: A Romance for the Golden Years
We’ll get to Willie’s move next week. We have to discuss Willie’s boyfriend. Yep. Willie has a boyfriend. I was visiting Willie one day.…
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Weekend Wanderer: Another Christmas to Remember
Around my house, the holidays tend to involve some Black Christmas-level drama. Indy went to Marion’s bar in Nepal six days before Christmas, two years…
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Weekend Wanderer: Is it Christmastime?
At 5:18 on the morning of Nov. 14, PhillyBurbs.com proclaimed, “The holiday season is here.” On Thanksgiving Day, PhillyVoice laid down the gauntlet. “Once the…
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Weekend Wanderer: The Taxes Are Done
Thanksgiving is close. Close enough to taste creamy mashed potatoes. Thick gravy. That uncle’s dripping sarcasm. Please. Everybody has that uncle. I’m sharing what I’m…
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Weekend Wanderer: A Few Kids and a Sick Dog, Part 2
When we last left the hapless me, my daughter was home after her college campus shut down. And my dog had diarrhea. Now, my dog,…
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