Paula Lynn's Page

The phone gift from yesterday would not go quietly into the night. It wanted to put me through the paces. Lesson learned: sometimes a gift worth giving is a gift worth working for. I arrived triumphantly in my friend's office today with new phone and charger in hand. Together we huddled over our cells for the "changing of the guard" as she put it (the removal of the sim card from her phone and placement into the new phone). Big moment. She hands me the card, I move to place it in the new…

My cell phone is as old as my daughter (going on three). I bought it a month before she was born. Last night it decided it's destiny had been fulfilled and it departed to Technology Heaven. This was stunning to me since it gave no prior indication it would be leaving me high and dry without a phone. Plus I had a virtual baby album of photos that needed to be retrieved off of it's memory. Luckily I could still do this, it only refuses to make calls. I was a little bleak about the unexpected…

My daughter Mary has two wonderful daycare teachers. When she first started attending school two days a week last summer we were dealing with a lot of fear and seperation anxiety, but her teachers comforted and supported us both. Which was a real blessing, because I don't know who was taking it harder, Mary or myself! But over the months, she has grown to love daycare and has a real connection with her classmates and her teachers.

Last week I was notified that the husband of…

I'm sitting in Pittsburgh, but my heart is off to Chicago. In a package for my younger brother. In that package is a card and a framed picture for his new office, for the new job he transferred from DC for several months ago. Being a single mom and supporting a young daughter doesn't always leave me with the disposable income I wish I had and so Christmas and my brother's birthday have passed without gifts. Then recently I took a lunchtime trip to the Strip District and discovered a print of…