So the boy pretty much got his dream job, just when I was ready to leave this city for my family and a place where the roads are wider, the houses are bigger, and life is slower.
He's working for a magazine for professional athletes as an assistant managing editor - telling people what to do, talking with former pro baseball players on a regular basis. The girl doesn't even have to ask - we won't be moving in June. It wouldn't be fair....and home wouldn't be home without him.
So we will stay, for now, and make New York home.
But I will fly home more....call more....be there as much as I can and when I'm here, be here, knowing it was a choice.

He told her she "had a fat stomach".
"I've lost weight since we've been together," she said, defending herself in a defense that shouldn't have been necessary.
"It must be all muscle tone," he replied.
And she walked out - too afraid to cry in front of him.
Why do girls stay with guys like this???

Life in slow motion
Somehow it don't feel real
David Grey

One of my kids' moms died today. He's forced to move to Rhode Island to live with his dad. She was 39. He's only 11. I don't know what I would do without my mom. I would be so lost. I can't stop crying...for him....for her....for the way life is for my kids and the fact that there's only so much we can do to change it.
"You'll always be my student," I told him today as he left.
"I know," he said.
"So you better do well. I expect it."
He smiled. Laughed.
I just held back tears.

Rental car and gas because flight was cancelled - $1,000
One way ticket back for me, the Boy, and the Dog - $450
The drive from New York to Kansas - 22 hours + 1 closed interstate
Being home for Christmas with family that I missed oh so much....Priceless :)