In 2012 I read Nora Ephron’s I Remember Nothing—a funny and touching book of reflections by a woman who wrote, directed, and produced films that are so a part of my history, I know their lines better than I know most of my cousins.
The book ends with two chapters—What I Won’t Miss and What I Will Miss—that moved me to consider my own responses to those prompts. When I am gone from this life, what will I be glad to leave behind, and what will I long to keep? Here goes …
| What I won’t miss: |
What I will miss: |
- Doing dishes and laundry
- Having to do a hard shut-down
- Zits
- Paying bills
- Emissions tests
- The DMV
- Hangnails
- Traffic jams
- Scooping the litter box
- Managing the family schedule
- The alarm clock
- Packing lunches
- Putting on pantyhose
- Allergies
- The mail pile on our kitchen counter
- Clutter
- Bitter cold winters
- Business travel
- Taxes
- Changing sheets
- Dust bunnies
- Mosquitos
- Deciding what’s for dinner
- Annual gynecological exams
- Flu season
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- My children
- My husband Jim
- The smell of Jim’s cologne
- A cat sleeping on my lap
- Rhyming
- Singing
- Laughing
- Family dinners
- Skype conversations with my sister
- Texts from my brother (I know how long it takes him with those giant thumbs)
- Contact with my brother and sister’s kids—whether text, phone, Facebook, or face-to-face
- Chocolate
- Red wine
- Reading to my children
- Hearing my children sing
- Driving too fast
- Yoga
- Lounging in bed
- Making love
- Scrabble
- Facebook
- Driving on a warm summer night with the windows down and the radio up
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How about you? What will you miss and not miss?
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Beth Nyland 