Everything about Anja

Anja is a phenomenon. She’s gorgeous, brilliant, hilarious, full of depth, the maker of the best chicken parm in the known universe, a stellar ceramics artist, and an impactful high school English teacher. Serendipitously, she’s my life partner.

She’s a private person, which means the vast majority of the amazing things I experience with and photograph of her don’t make it onto this website. Below are a few times she did pop into a story.

Super-recognizer

On occasion, Anja will compliment me on my ability to recognize people. I don’t know when I first noticed it myself, but there are actors I recognize even if they played minor characters in an episode of a show I watched 15 years ago. (Continue)

Prospective dog owners

I’m in that supremely annoying stage of prospective dog ownership where I casually interrogate dog owners at parties, curious about their pet’s behavior and the techniques employed, and then silently judge them for their mistakes, exchanging contemptuous glances with Anja in the process. (Continue)

Week 51: The piano

Happy Hanukkah and/or Christmas to those who celebrate! Even though our house is (reluctantly) multi-religious, we forgot just about every tradition we were ever taught for this time of the year. (Continue)

She

“Slept a little, had a midnight snack, went in for a bathroom break. Slept some more. Basically the life of a four-year-old” she says, and she tells me about her flight to Stockholm. (Continue)