I’m sitting safe and sound and warm and well-fed and privileged on my sofa with my macbook on my lap and all my limbs attached. I’m white and american and tho female, and therefore still in many ways the second sex, i’m grateful. very grateful.

i’m grateful for all this but maybe especially that i have a daughter who’s been my best friend since she was in utero. she’s now 22 and lives in burlington, vt, a psych major and women’s studies minor. and a pip.

i’m a teacher and a writer. english as a second language, french, business writing. it would appear that capital letters are not part of the curriculum. i’ve been called a pip ,too.

i don’t know what a pip is. can men be pips?

together mad and i are writing each other strong. these exchanges will be posted here with expanded comments. it may take shape on its own since neither of us is known for structure.

this is our Tandem Textbook by Mad and Mom. Please let me know what you think. I’ll be sure to visit your lives, too, and that will be with pleasure. off to be the last one to post!

oh but first…our blackberry messages from today. yesterday we even spoke!

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mad:  sent photo of eggs over easy, sausage and toast

mad: miss you! ryan and i are starting the master cleanse together tomorrow!

mom: tell me more. i bought an herbal one which i’m looking at now! was that a picture of lunch?

mad: ooh. well the master cleanse is also called the lemonade diet. yup! the place where you got the best pancakes. best breakfast in vermont!

mom: yum. and yuck. not that again! i just had a greasy croissant with tuna a la unctuous mayo. can’t fit into my ski pants. think i’ll pour a glass of wine. then take the dog for a walk-it-off.

mad: haha. i want to finally lose this weight-i dreamt of my fat arms and back in a wedding dress last night! wanna start hitting the uvm gym cuz it’s free. ryan and i started looking at apartments for next year, too.

mom: yesterday i went to the gym and circled all the spinning and yoga classes i could be taking…if i got my butt there more than once a week! did you look yesterday?

mad: yeah we saw a tiny little place, kind of old, but very cheap.

mom: keep looking. good luck. i’ll send you reiki. finally starting our blog as we “speak”! calling it a tandem “textbook” by mad and mom as we discussed. thoughts?

mad: i like the name.

mom: where’s the colon on this bb keyboard???

mad: h

mom: i am such an idiot…and blind!

mad: i just bought a new yuumy candle too. tahitian flowers.

mom: great. good idea. i’ll light my amberwood now for some feng shui aromatherapy inspiration!

mad: i’m going to send this ezpass transponder now.

mom: good

ASIDE: new jersey cancelled my ezpass of 9 years for non-payment of which i was never notified. remember life before ezpass? now you don’t even have to stop on the garden state parkway. remember life before computers?  remember being slow? i’d better hurry up and post this so i can find time later to add photos, widgits, plug ins, pingbacks, videos, graphics. holy mother of god!

haiti.

later all…

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