What Would You Miss?

I was sad this week to hear that Nora Ephron passed away. She was the writer of one of my all time favorite moves, When Harry Met Sally. I remember one college summer seeing the movie when it came out with my sister and a friend. I've watched the movie so many times that I know the next line in the movie and can recite the lines along with the actors much to the annoyance of my husband. To be fair, he does the same thing with The Karate Kid. In Rob Reiner's tribute to Nora Ephron, he says that the character of Sally was based on Nora. A couple of lines in the movie are actually taken from conversations that they had together. I also found this tribute from HBO's Girl's director Lena Dunham interesting. Apparently, Nora Ephron was Dunham's mentor and was very generous with her time and advise.

In her last book, I Remember Nothing, Nora Ephron ended it with two lists; a list of what she won't miss and a list of what she will miss. It's interesting that most of the items on the list of things she'll miss are the people that she loves and the simple pleasures in life. That's what matters most in life and most of them don't cost a thing. What would you miss?

What I Won’t Miss by Nora Ephron

Dry skin

Bad dinners like the one we went to last night

E-mail

Technology in general

My closet

Washing my hair

Bras

Funerals

Illness everywhere

Polls that show that 32 percent of the American people believe in creationism

Polls

Fox

The collapse of the dollar

Joe Lieberman

Clarence Thomas

Bar mitzvahs

Mammograms

Dead flowers

The sound of the vacuum cleaner

Bills

E-mail. I know I already said it, but I want to emphasize it.

Small print

Panels on Women in Film

Taking off makeup every night 

What I Will Miss by Nora Ephron 

My kids

Nick

Spring

Fall

Waffles

The concept of waffles

Bacon

A walk in the park

The idea of a walk in the park

The park

Shakespeare in the Park

The bed

Reading in bed

Fireworks

Laughs

The view out the window

Twinkle lights

Butter

Dinner at home just the two of us

Dinner with friends

Dinner with friends in cities where none of us lives

Paris

Next year in Istanbul

Pride and Prejudice

The Christmas tree

One for the table

The dogwood

Taking a bath

Coming over the bridge to Manhattan

Pie