Dear Friends — Are you suffering from friggatriskaidekaphobia? I mean, are you paraskevidekatriaphobic? If so, today has probably been a rough day for you. But from tomorrow on you’ll be fine . . . at least until mid-January 2023. For years, my husband has been trying to convince me that profound life lessons come from, variously, tennis or basketball. Tennis has been a hard sell, partly because I was three years into our relationship — and three-quarters of the way through a day at the U.S. Open — before I had the courage to admit that I couldn’t understand how tennis is scored. (It is
Friday Notes, May 13, 2022
Friday Notes, May 13, 2022
Friday Notes, May 13, 2022
Dear Friends — Are you suffering from friggatriskaidekaphobia? I mean, are you paraskevidekatriaphobic? If so, today has probably been a rough day for you. But from tomorrow on you’ll be fine . . . at least until mid-January 2023. For years, my husband has been trying to convince me that profound life lessons come from, variously, tennis or basketball. Tennis has been a hard sell, partly because I was three years into our relationship — and three-quarters of the way through a day at the U.S. Open — before I had the courage to admit that I couldn’t understand how tennis is scored. (It is