• 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,…

  • IT IS WHAT IT IS!

    I’ve been hearing this expression for weeks now — IT IS WHAT IT IS.Followed by a shrug and a sigh. It’s pretty apparent people aren’t saying this because everything is hunky dory and coming up roses. No. Whether “it” is…

  • NANOWRIMO, BABY!

    November is National Novel Writing Month! And I’m in the third week of attempting to write 50,000 words by November 30th! So why am I even writing here in this blog right now? I’m only up to 20,015 and I…

  • PROJECT RUNWAY FINALE (Season 8)

    Mondo! You were robbed! But you will survive! Because you are incredibly talented and honest and unique! I really don’t understand what was going in in the heads of Nina Garcia and Michael Kors. I mean, GRETCHEN?!? I would have…

  • MAD TEA PARTY

    Yes, those Tea Partyers are MAD. As in CRAZY NUTS INSANE! Don’t they realize that GOING BACK is not an option? Like Alice, I feel like I’m sitting at a table of spinning cups and steaming teapots where nothing makes…

  • GOOD GRIEF

    Fall has arrived, and with it, an elegiac undercurrent in my psyche. It’s been 45 years since my father succumbed to esophogeal cancer, but I can still feel the sense of loss in this season, and especially now that I…

  • 30 YEARS AGO…

    …my body brought forth on this continent a new baby, conceived in love, and dedicated to being absolutely, positively, and amazingly HERSELF. Jon and I are fairly dazed today, wondering how fast the time has gone since that August 22nd…

  • CRUELTY, THY NAME IS BLOOD

    I don’t know why this word has been chasing me around all week…like the Furies with Orestes. CRUELTY. Apparently CRUEL comes from CRUDE which is derived from some other root meaning BLOOD. And there are two definitions. The first is…

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