4 alarms and a boob.
I always ask for a pat-down when going through airport security, to avoid increasing my EMF bioburden. Today, coming home from Jackson, Mississippi, ( http://iflyjackson.com/ ), the TSA trainee gave me the most thorough pat-down I’ve ever received. I imagined that she was massaging me with care and love, and told her that; she smiled and said.. read more →
Big snake, little girl, and the mob.
I grew up during the 1950s in a blue-collar suburb of Schenectady, New York, a mini-village of mostly Italian and Polish Catholic families. As my father was Jewish and a white-collar worker at the General Electric plant, and my mother was a city person whose lack of social skills scared people, we did not fit.. read more →
Reassuring words
It is time to renew my driver’s license. That means a photograph. I want my portrait to show me at my best; we all know that a driver’s license photograph can be less than lovely. I prepare carefully, with make-up, and the right earrings, and the right color shirt with a flattering neckline so that.. read more →
To everything there is a season. . . .
Every month, in all the months of my 20s, 30s and early 40s, I wanted a baby. I would dream of being pregnant, despite any logic or possibility. I could never imagine not wanting a baby because that desire consistently bubbled up out of some inner place. One day, however, when I was in 43, I.. read more →
Hanging Up My Skates
4 years ago, wanting to be sure it was good for me to continue skating, I went to a sports medicine doctor who x-rayed my knees, said that there were some arthritic changes, along with good space between my femur and tibia, and recommended that I stop jumping. I immediately followed his advice and gave.. read more →
A difference between men and women?
He and I went to our Sunday morning yoga class, located in a gym in a small mall that also contains stores and a Walgreen’s drugstore. The drugstore called a few days ago, to say that his prescription was ready. After leaving yoga, as we were right next to the drugstore, I suggested that he.. read more →
