Monthly Archives: January 2009

I can’t tell you who will be here.

I can’t tell you who is sponsoring the party.

I shouldn’t tell you who will benfit from it all, or give you the imdb pages for the guests.

But it’s going to be good.
It’s going to be here.

As the antibiotics kick in and Alexander’s fever subsides we start having a little fun. The kids disappear into the snow and build forts. We caution them to stick together, but there is no lecture about the homeless guy on Ventura or the speed of cars. Instead we worry about boots falling off or spats between children.

The kids go to daycare ski school for a few hours and Robert and I take a few runs together. It’s fun, but it’s pretty tame and I’m needing just a little more.

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This time of year the first bit of small talk is, how was your vacation? My answer will sound a lot like the relationship status of a Facebook addict.

It’s complicated.

Skiing is amazing. Skiing for me is a lot like running, there’s fear and failure, bumps, falls and endorphines. Skiing is healing, unfortunately this isn’t the first death to be healed with a day of moguls.

Let me give you a day by day recap of the trip.
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Isn’t it?

I brought my site from one server to another by myself (thanks to Wendy) in spite of warnings from others to not attempt it.

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It’s a virtue, so they say.
I’m cleaning things up here and I’ll be adding a bunch of new pages and buttons and links for y’all to enjoy.

So, please, wait for me?

We whisper to each other, but not to you.

As I made my way back to Los Angeles from our Colorado Ski Vacation, the news of Israel retaliating with a Ground Invasion brought my vacation to an abrupt end. I find it startling that Bloomberg (the Mayor of New York City) is boarding a plane to the Middle East but Condoleeza Rice is silent. Israel has been bombed 90 times in the past few months, they’re hitting back. Hurts, doesn’t it?

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