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11: Eleven

Written by Susan Fritz | Friday, January 31st, 2020 Posted in Blog, Dan Fritz | ,
If you think that I don’t think about how else this could have gone…you don’t know me that well. And I think you know me; I’m not so hard to know. If you don’t think I wonder which shade and shape of couch I’d fall asleep on after the kids (let’s be real—the pup, perhaps? A turtle or goldfish?) went to bed (finally…and most likely after a battle— because they are children (or pets) of late-night folk), you think you know me, but you don’t. But I think you know me… If you think I don’t s...
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Snooze

Written by Susan Fritz | Tuesday, November 19th, 2019 Posted in Blog, Dan Fritz |
Even if I wouldn’t have remembered (impossible), my computer wouldn’t have let me forget. At the moment, the most incredible thing about that statement is how difficult the grammar is…even if–wouldn’t have; would not have. Not an easy sentence for non-native speakers. And at the moment, this is relevant because I’m doing something different than you or I would have imagined, Dan. I’m in a tiny country across several ponds, teaching (or its approximation) English and learning a language ...
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Time to Get a Watch

Written by Susan Fritz | Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019 Posted in Blog, Dan Fritz
The Traditional gift The gift for a fifteenth wedding anniversary is CRYSTAL. And, in an alternate ending, today would have been the 15th anniversary of the late, great, Dan Fritz and me. Crystal seems excessively dramatic to me…but if it’s meant to represent the solidity of a couple’s unity–I’ll buy it. What I won’t buy, however, is the “modern” gift alternative: a watch. I mean, with the advent of the cell phone as a cyber appendage more usefu...
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Things Which Don’t Exist

Written by Susan Fritz | Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018 Posted in Blog, Dan Fritz
I was writing a note in my iPhone calendar yesterday–the simple one, normally reserved for “Dentist at 9”; “United flight 351 @ 4:21 PST”. I know you’re supposed to use some special app or else buck the system entirely with paper and pen, but I’ve been stuck in my ways since my Blackberry Days. (I sat on that Tupperware-shade green chair and read to you from the tiny, slow-to-load Blackberry screen…transcripts of Beavis and Butthead in “young-eye scriptR...
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Timing is Always Perfect

Written by Susan Fritz | Tuesday, August 28th, 2018 Posted in Blog, Dan Fritz, Mexico, Nomad Life
⁣“We would have met at an airport.”⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ It was romantic, but…⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ It was not what I wanted to hear. ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ In the newspaper column, it said, “Susan Jean Myhr will attend Northwestern for Vocal Performance”… I was supposed to. And yet, I said “No”. ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ I went to that Ivy instead. The place I had no business being—(they were low on the Square State demographic). ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ And there You were. In place of practice rooms and musical notes…⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ Intimidating, this se...
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Binders Full of EOBs and WTFs

Written by Susan Fritz | Friday, May 5th, 2017 Posted in Blog, Dan Fritz
You remember the “binders of women”, don’t you? Or does the news cycle move so vapidly and rapidly you’ve forgotten that fun little quip from Mitt from just 5 years ago… Don’t answer that. It’s irrelevant to my point here. It’s just a cute way to begin my rant, which is what this is. I’m joining the chorus of people who wonder if Paul Ryan’s parents regret the many times they dropped him on his head as a child (but that’s just mean-spirited, right?). I join the people who summoned childhood d...
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Opening Ceremonies

Written by Susan Fritz | Monday, August 15th, 2016 Posted in Blog, Dan Fritz
Are you watching the Olympics? asks the cashier at Target. I smile politely and say, “I’ve seen some of it…” We never know what will trigger us—or when, or where. These moments are not predictable like Michael Phelps on the podium in Rio…or Ryan Lochte barely squeaking by in his ESL class… It’s only after it’s over, when we have a minute or two to re-examine or re-live what it must have felt like to be us—that we see clearly. Ahh…I knew… One such moment for me is from the summer of 2008...

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