I have been sad lately because my nephew, 14 years my junior, suffered from juvenile diabetes his entire life. That life ended last month. He was 40 years old. My family has become estranged from each other, but even so, at least for me, the loss of someone I loved hurts. Pete, our name for […]
If I Had My Life To Live Over
WEEK #56 (6-10-12 to 6-16-12): If I Had My Life to Live Over… I would not want to change anything that would alter my timeline one iota, because one small change could shift every aspect of my life to a point that my beautiful, intelligent, light of my life, my daughter would not be born. […]
How Have I Missed Garfunkel and Oates Until Now?
Seriously, someone has been holding out on me. Why hasn’t someone told me about these two before now? I hold you, yes, you, responsible. You should have told me. How the hell is a 55 year old over the hill fat lady supposed to stay up on these things so that my inner skinny 23 […]
Just Saying, Bless His Heart
“Just saying” is a new version of old turn of phrase, just saying. I love language. It is all arbitrary sounds associated with meaning that we create in our heads. How amazing is that? That we can communicate with each other at all astounds me. We have layered meaning on meaning and teach everything to […]
Day Late and a Dollar Short
My timing sucks! I came down with the flu, aches, chills, cough, the whole enchilada, right at the time the political and news editor of BlogHer suggests that I write a counterpoint to a member post on the site in a comment to that post. Thank heavens Mona Gable wrote a counterpoint piece. I only […]
Iconic Figures Receive Presidential Medals of Freedom
What an amazing group of people honored at the White House today! Those bestowed with the Medal of Freedom included: Bob Dylan, Juliette Gordon Low, Toni Morrison, and John Glenn topped the list of those honored this day who touched my life and are household names for large swaths of the America public. I get […]