30 years later and nothing’s changed
Irony is getting ready to attend your thirtieth high school reunion and having worse skin that when you were seventeen. I’m not kidding about either. I graduated in 1982. A group of us eschewed the...
View ArticleA Time to Purge
“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as...
View ArticleScrew resolutions
“I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.” -Anaïs Nin Between the holidays, a death in...
View ArticleYou Go, Swimmer-Girl!
The pool is filled with a couple hundred almost identical teenaged girls in caps and competition suits. You can smell the estrogen in the humid air. Later, their screams urging on teammates pierce the...
View ArticleBeing the best I can be – defining that, then going forward
photo by katagaci at sxc.hu I saw a commercial the other day. A woman of a certain age started to jog, then she was running in a race. Her family (I assume it was her family) gathered round her as she...
View ArticleThursday’s confessional
Photo by matchstick on rgbstock.com Last night I attended a fundraiser put on by my women’s networking group. This meant that, in addition to all the usual gals, outsiders were there – customers,...
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