The two of you are amazing; we’ve been in our place for over a year and a half, and we still haven’t unpacked all our boxes… That, more or less, is the kind of praise we’ve received from a number of visitors, upon seeing the progress we had made in eliminating the stack of cartons that had overwhelmed our new apartment, as if we had done something stupendous, like invent a new kind of wheel. As far as we were concerned, we were just doing what comes naturally. That is, if one partner is A.D.D. and the other is on the O.C.D. spectrum (which makes us O.D.D.).
Month: March 2025
The Dreaded ‘M’Word — Part 22
I shouldn’t have been surprised to see him sitting in our salon; he did tell me on the phone that he would be in our neighborhood to pay a shiva call on such and such date, and that he might drop by. It’s just that, with everything else going on, I hadn’t been paying full attention. And if nothing else, Jeff deserves one’s full attention.