Yesterday during a conversation with a client, she offered up a phrase that her husband mentioned when she was comparing herself with another person:

Vinnie saw the three women approaching across the Bowdoin practice field, and promptly sat down in the grass, waiting. As he expected, all three stopped and fawned all over him.

I dragged myself out of bed and shuffled down the short hallway to my kitchen.

I snapped the lid off of the Tupperware container and mindlessly poured grounds into a new filter, wiping the sleep from my eyes as I added water.