I stopped playing the lottery because I would get so disappointed when I didn’t win. And I’m not willing to live in a world of diminishing expectations in order to survive. Now though I’m beginning to think that in striking out for the sublime in order to get further away from the banal, I’ve missed an entire universe of interest. Take for example, today. I was driving Tin to Hebrew school and listening to gospel…
My days of late have been less than days of awe, but here we are in two of the highest holy days of people of Jewish faith – Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and I had to take inventory. Of everything. I woke to my limp, after seriously messing up my piriformis muscle in a hip opener class after returning to yoga for the first time in a year. I went last Thursday and on…
How To Like It These are the first days of fall. The wind at evening smells of roads still to be traveled, while the sound of leaves blowing across the lawns is like an unsettled feeling in the blood, the desire to get in a car and just keep driving. A man and a dog descend their front steps. The dog says, Let’s go downtown and get crazy drunk. Let’s tip over all the trash…
I woke screaming in the middle of the night because the man I loved was with a statuesque blonde named Wayfair. Since Wayfair is one of the spam emails I get daily, I had to chuckle despite being a little disconcerted about the dream. Rodger Kamenetz says you have to look for other touch points in the dream, how was I feeling, behaving, who else was there? It’s not so much that things represent other…
The days have become weeks and the weeks almost months since I returned from Spain and that never never land feeling of long days and idle nights. Gone are the books consumed for breakfast and the glasses of wine for lunch. Certainly, the wasteland of summer vacation cannot be replicated day in and day out or surely that would grow old as well. Tin has started his new school where they are told to be…
I went to the endocrinologist this morning and everything was great until my physical exam where he felt a lump on my thyroid. “I’m not going to say it’s cancer, but we should have it checked.” Suddenly that lump felt bigger. Before I was called into his office, I was sitting in the waiting room and a woman across from me leaned in and said, “You look really great like that.” She thought I had…
I had a moment of panic last night that I haven’t experienced in a long time. But let me back up. Every day I have been walking Stella around the bayou and to City Park and it’s all been very well and good, and I’m super grateful for Stella and for having a dog get me back to my morning walks. Yet, every morning I am greeted by my past – both the view of…
A quote I heard recently: “We should be guided by our spirits not our plans.” Nine years after the great 2005 Federal Flood and where are we now? Wednesday night, I sat at a dinner table with one friend who is moving to Illinois and another who said she would look for work elsewhere. The tragedy cemented people to this city – apathy is helping us wither on the vine. My pal during the aftermath…
A friend stopped by for dinner last night as she was getting ready to leave on sabbatical. Before my new roommate had returned with the sushi, she asked, “So, are you dating?” I almost let out a laugh, as in, what kind of question is that? But then I had to remember, she dates. She usually has multiple lovers and so perhaps it is not a question out of the ordinary for her to ask.…
If you stop and notice you see how things fall apart but also how things come together. I keep having these ah ha moments where I’m looking for a long straw to fit my water glass and then all of a sudden I open a drawer and see an old plastic container I never use and lo and behold there is the long straw. Presto! On Monday, I hit my head not once but three…