Avenue of the Pickles

I have been thinking a little, okay a lot, about love lately. Who gets love? According to Janis Ian, “Love is meant for beauty queens/and high school girls with clear skinned smiles” … well that knocks me out of the picture. I’m not even close to young with wrinkles and acne. My smile is lopsided. Why […]

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"Lululemon-Wearing Yoga … "

A couple of weeks ago, I was sitting on a bar stool drinking a lovely cheap Chardonnay waiting for my friends to arrive. The three of us had survived yoga teacher training together. Getting up at the ungodly hour of 5:45 to make a 7am three-hour yoga class one hated Sunday each month. Yogis emoting […]

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To Bean or Not to Bean

Life has been surreal – stranger than any fiction I could write. And if you have been keeping up with the FB posts – you know I can write some strange shit. Like killing off my main character over and over again, diverting a river to hide a dead body (weird but true), maiming someone […]

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NSFW: Middle-Age Surrealism

   Post-surgeries life has been painful, funny, crazy, and just plain odd. I am not sure whether or not to look at it too closely. Last week, I was sitting with a friend at dinner. As usual, my right foot, post four or five surgeries, was propped on a stool. My skirt was hiked to […]

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