Went to Europe again. How lucky I am to have been so many times in my life. Paris is now almost familiar and more picturesque than ever. I realized why they still have all those beautiful 19th century buildings. They caved to the Nazis and didn’t get bombed! I think California cuisine trumps French these […]
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The Bees’ Knees and Then Some!
I live in a Honey House. Honey drips from the rafters and through the lightswitch plates. Bees have been enjoying our attic for years now and today we have finally brought in the experts to salvage the massive amount of honeycomb hive that apparently has been the cause of the plethora of dead worker bees […]
Relaxing into Reality
Okay. What the heck does that title mean? In some ways, offering an explanation is contrary to its very meaning. Any definition seems like an effort to control, and that’s precisely the opposite of relaxing. To relax or “re-loose” implies something (or someone) that is tight (uptight!) which needs loosening, and not just once but […]
Bitch blog?
I was just thinking about blogging. About the purpose of blogging, for the blogger. Bitch about the state of the world? Kvetch about daily irritations? Pontificate on the moral and/or politcal climate of our times? Share vital information about unclogging a stopped-up drain? That is, is a blog a how-to? Or a where to, as […]
N.O.M.B.
I came up with this acronym a few years ago when I was trying unsuccessfully to separate from my post-college, capable, adult daughters. They had already separated from me! But the maternal instinct dies hard, at least the part of it that feels the need to protect one’s offspring from harm of any kind. High […]
Hypochondria, Goddess of F-f-fear!
My first hypochondriacal tendency can be traced back to my twenties when I started to imagine every headache was a brain tumor. I didn’t know anyone with a brain tumor but I had heard that the English writer, Anthony Burgess, was once diagnosed with one which miraculously disappeared after he got Clockwork Orange out of […]
Pollyanna was no Pollyanna
“Don’t be a Pollyanna!” “She’s such a Pollyanna!” Ever heard these exclamations before? Usually they refer to someone who is way too 1)obnoxiously cheerful, 2)excessively optimistic, 3)forever positive, 3)stupidly idealistic, 5) did I say obnoxiously cheerful? Or all of the aforementioned. But who is/was Pollyanna? Besides the heroine of the 1913 novel of the same […]
Mississippi Ippississim!
When I was a kid, I loved spelling Mississippi forwards and backwards, over and over again. All those s’s and i’s and p’s! They lilted up and down, like the waves of the great river of the same name. It wasn’t until 1977, the year I got married, that I finally saw both river and […]
Atonement?
Yom Kippur tonight. My husband will start fasting. Despite being a self-proclaimed atheist, he still observes this ritual. He says he does it to feel connected to his father, who also fasts. Way back when we were first married, I, the shiksa wife, tried not eating for a day and it turned me into a […]
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