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  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 4th of July a.k.a. Independence Day

    We’re going to brunch, yes, brunch, at my in-laws. No barbecue. No fireworks. Not that I really care. My community goes ape-shit every 4th,…

  • TURTLE EGGS FULL OF HUMAN PROMISE

    Human beings kill me. Yeah, some of them MIGHT kill me. But let’s not even go there. I mean, sometimes human beings are adorable,…

  • GOO-GOO-GOOGLE

    I was looking at the Google letters on my laptop screen yesterday and wondering how did those guys (Larry Page and Sergey Brin) come…

  • DERMIS DILEMMA

    10:45 – I am looking at myself in a magnifying mirror in my dermotologist’s office. EEEEK!!!! It’s as if a witch put a spell…

  • GUILT BEGONE!

    The other day I decided I wasn’t going to feel guilty. About ANYTHING. I would just go about my day, taking life as it…

  • One Day, 24 Stories

    Over the past year, I have been recording 24 short stories which are all set on the same day in the same place —…