by Erin MacNair | Jan 27, 2015 | Random Bits, Welcome
Recently, I’ve been talking a lot about dying. It’s because I’ve only just realized that I’m not going to die young in a blaze of glory. This has something to do with being in your forties and mortality and all that, when it hits you that this is it and you better...
by Erin MacNair | Dec 25, 2014 | Random Bits, Welcome
Just to clarify, for those who might have those I was making fun of Christians or Buddhists in my last post, I wasn’t. (I don’t take myself seriously, you shouldn’t either) Some of us are part-time Buddhists, (my husband goes to a Zendo; I just think about going,...
by Erin MacNair | Dec 8, 2014 | Random Bits, Welcome
“I’m calling tonight on behalf of the fireman’s annual ball…” he started. “OHMIGOD,” I shrieked. “You want to take me to the fireman’s ball? That is soooooocool I can’t wait to tell my friends! A real fireman!” “Um, no, wait…” he started again. But I wasn’t having it....
by Erin MacNair | Nov 18, 2014 | Random Bits, Welcome
I meet lots of interesting people in middle age. Middle Age is kind of like Middle Earth, everyone is hairier, they drink better mead and they often discuss the size of their Hobbit holes. Wait…I’m talking real estate, not sure what you were thinking… but we middle...
by Erin MacNair | Oct 21, 2014 | Random Bits, Welcome
Yesterday I was waiting for a parking spot, watching a lady get into her uber-fancy car. She got in quickly, only to then open the door, look around, and deposit a Styrofoam coffee cup on the pavement before speeding away. I pulled into her spot, retrieved the cup,...
by Erin MacNair | Sep 15, 2014 | Random Bits, Welcome
It started almost 15 years ago, when a friend dragged me upstairs thorough a strip mall-like building. He led me to a room filled with sweaty bodies, where it was over 100 F. I laid my mat down on the carpet and thought, eww, this carpet is gross, and why does it have...
