Natalie and I used to play together as little girls. We don’t quite remember much about it, but we are certainly friends again now…randomly reunited in crazy Los Angeles 20 years later. (Thank goodness I have a really good memory for faces)

[URL=http://www.ci.orinda.ca.us/]The Big O.[/url] Yeeah, yeeah.

Moms are amazing! And I think mine is especially wonderful.

It’s funny how, no matter how old I get, I can still benefit greatly from a visit from my Mom. She arrived last Wednesday, finding me looking tired with no food in the fridge, my apartment less than pristine (not too messy, but not up to Mom standards) and my skin in upheavel over my eating habits. She stepped in and now I have an organized desk, a clean stovetop, a full fridge, a bleached bathtub, super-duper-clean floors, beauteous flowers on my mini-deck, blooming roses in my building’s side yard complete with written instructions for watering, two new gorgeous pictures on my kitchen walls and I’ve been soda and fast-food free for 10 days!

She was going to stay for only 4 days, but almost 8 days went by before she entertained the idea of leaving. When she drove off for home my throat swelled and I almost burst into tears. She came, she healed, she loved, we laughed, we cried, we danced and we are closer than ever…

Thank you, Momimo!