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How We Learn
When I think of teachers I see them in two categories. One being the obvious: parent, professor, sibling – etc. The second – those who have hurt us into knowing better. For instance, all the men I’ve...
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Learning How To Be
Years ago someone gave me a set of ancient Rune Cards (similar to Tarot ) I sadly no longer have, but one in particular has always stayed fixed in my memory. I can’t recall its name but remember the...
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On Tenderhooks
Maybe it’s the heat or my life of new forced frugality but for whatever reason, I’ve been a little sensitive and edgy these past couple of days; Part of me feels I’m attracting situations adding to my...
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We Are Who We Eat
Calm down, this is not a porn post, it’s about the foods we eat and when you consider all the meat we consume my title is quite apt. I myself don’t eat beef, pork or lamb. Years ago I bonded with a cow...
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Small Delays
I’ve learned something about myself that was rather illuminating. I love kids, but not when I’m in a hurry. There I was scurrying across the park to a last minute job when who do I collide with but The...
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The Great American Family
I decided I needed a matinee so I went to see Ted, the alleged comedy with Mark Walhberg that I have very little to say about except – if Teddy Roosevelt ever saw his namesake using a urinal I think...
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The Postman Rings Late
What is going on with the mail? I feel as if we’d be doing better if they’d resurrect the Pony Express. For starters, my mail doesn’t come till sundown. The mailman, who looks like he stops off for a...
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If You Were A Carpenter And I Wasn’t A Lady
My French door fell off. I know, it’s always something. I have two of them that divide my living room and kitchen and one of them, for no particular reason, became unhinged. Better it than me I...
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Connubial Bliss
I always thought marriage was like crossing a finish line of sorts. You meet someone you care enough about to share your bananas with, as Anne Lamott would say, so you can now relax and write that...
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In A Manner of Speaking
The definition of manners is a person’s outward bearing or way of behaving toward others: his arrogance and pompous manner | a shy and diffident manner… polite or well-bred social behavior : didn’t...
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Sardines In A Can
I often write about subway life, the only way to get around quickly in Manhattan. The trains are truly amazing, until they get stuck with you smashed against some guy with breathtaking BO that is. He...
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Don’t Just Do Something…Sit There
How hard is it to be patient? I’ll tell you how hard, it’s utterly excruciating. Right now my life is very quiet. It feels as though I’m watching it from the sidelines like a ballplayer forced to sit...
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That’s One Crazy Cat
I’ve been feeding the kitty across the street for almost a week now. It was my pleasure to help her mistress who went home to visit her sister in Ohio. I just wish she had told me to make sure to bring...
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Tortoise Crossing
Never a dull moment in Central Park. I was tooling around 110th Street, surprised to see a pileup of bikers and runners halted at the crest of Harlem Hill. Uh-oh, I thought, was it an accident? Did...
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And Then There Was Light
After a week and a very long day, my hearing in my left ear went up proving once again the vagaries of Prednisone. It hasn’t risen to its full height, the little warrior, but it’s made a grand attempt...
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Like Living In The Alps
The view from my window looks like a Currier and Ives lithograph…snow as far as the eye can see. With the exception of emergency vehicles, all cars have been ordered off the road. The biggest deal is...
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Finally Tuned Friendship
Age is the true educator. My whole life I’ve viewed everything in black and white…all or nothing…this way or that way with wiggle room, leeway, latitude, flexibility having no role in my life....
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Short Women
En route to somewhere, I came upon a little lady of 3, sprawled on the sidewalk having a major meltdown. Imagine Kim Basinger at that age losing her cool, blonde tendrils draped on the pavement, a...
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Noah’s Moving Company
It’s monsooning as I wait for the movers to come get my few things. I’ll still be here of course, through Saturday, but my reading chair, nightstand and brass lamp will have moved on. I tried getting...
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Yes, I Live Here
My new digs have yet to feel like home. It’s still as if I’m in a really nice hotel suite, just minus a minibar. What’s keeping me afloat, my big buoy in the water, is writing. I stay fixed in my...
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