Writing With Abandon

Last Friday, at our slicers meet up, Caro greeted me with a hug and told me that morning, while she made her coffee, her eyes lit upon a card I’d written her last year that she now has on her fridge. Later in the evening, when discussing the ever popular topic of “what to slice about,” I went back to Caro’s comment: we could write about what’s on our fridges!

“I don’t have anything on my fridge,” Cande said. But then—“wait, we do have four small magnets for each of my family members.”

“That’s a slice!”

And that’s my slice tonight, as P gets his dinner ready and I wait for him so we can keep watching “Shrinking” on Apple TV (we’re obsessed).

So, what’s on my fridge?

• A big KLA magnet
• A dollar bill with a “SAY GAY” stamp on it (important here in Florida!)
• Last year’s school photos of V, JH, and Emmie
• A card from my student E last year
• A card from my (basically) sister- and brother-in-law from when I got my new job
• Thank you cards, Christmas cards, cards of appreciation
• Post-its of appreciation
• V’s drawings
• Photo booth strips
• Magnets from Italy, Mexico, and the UK
• Our Brick (which I haven’t used in a while, but Instagram has been off my phone so it’s fine)
• This year’s Valentine’s cards
• Mini printed pictures
• A postcard print with “ways to say I love you” that a former coworker made back in covid to support the US Postal ServiceM
• Magnetic photos from Ariel’s wedding
• A meat thermometer
• Two post-its of a cartoon hair called Seamus (it’s an inside joke, you wouldn’t get it)
• P’s wish for kind resolutions to all conflicts
• The tasting menu from our celebratory dinner this summer after I got my job
• A Husky light courtesy of my dad this Christmas
• A thank you card from a friend’s wedding
• An appliance repair company’s magnet
• Ana’s letter to us slicers and the magic orange stickers

Everything on my fridge brings me so much joy. It may not be neat, but it’s a mess of love.