Stories & Poems & Thoughts (Oh My)

I’m at this really weird time in my life – mid 50s where I am working as hard as possible but seeing opportunities land elsewhere. In younger people’s laps. My ...
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Two weekends ago, the red oil pressure light flashed on in my Fiat, a Barbie Doll of a car. Trying to get the car off a major avenue swarming with traffic ...
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Sitting at the coffee shop with my friends, I asked, “Should I write something funny or sappy in my blog today?” I was thinking that I had the themes for ...
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It happened again – the family curse of nearby candles setting unexpected fires. Around the winter solstice, a few of us gals get together for a night out at an ...
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I was lighting the candles for the last night of Chanukah, The Festival of Lights, when this memory plunked into my consciousness. Plunked with such Maccabean might that I dropped ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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I am in a slump. I am all written out. My brain is mush. So I decided to play with Andrew’s photographs for our collaboration “69 Scheimpflug Street.” I ...
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   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 ...
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