Pamela Ribon

Tag: Aging

  • Scenes from my birthday party

    Scenes from my birthday party

    I wish I was watching all of my 21 Jump Street DVD episodes with Sars. Best moment of the pilot: when Johnny Depp gets really sad because he can’t stop thinking about his father, we watch him from outside his apartment window as he stares at a photograph of his father while soulfully playing the…

  • Since Turning Thirty, I…

    –woke up with aches and pains. I do believe I said, “Ow, my back.” –forgot what I was going to say two words into the sentence. –publicly announced someone’s birthday as belated, when it hadn’t happened yet. –surfed online for a good, affordable Singer, and not the kind that come to my house and play…

  • The Curviest Number

    So, I’m thirty. Today. “Drew Barrymore just turned thirty,” stee says from across the breakfast table. He’s got that tone — hesitantly trying to cheer me up. That’s how many people have approached me over the past week. “Soo…” they start. “Someone has a birthday…?” Like they expect me to stop them in the middle…

  • Comment That Made Me Feel Young Today

    A co-worker said to me, with a dismissive hand shake, “You probably don’t remember, but… did you know who Johnny Carson was?” I was too stunned to say anything other than, “Did you just ask me if I’ve ever heard of Johnny Carson?” And she said, “I mean, I know you know he died. But…