When we found Wolfie, she was emaciated, had had at least one litter of puppies, was not spayed, had heartworms, had fleas, and was filthy. She didn’t have the tag but I never looked for the owner. Whoever owned her, shouldn’t have. Since finding Wolfie, I’ve heard from people who have jobs like you and me, who perform extraordinary miracles on the side. One woman has rescued 500 German Shepherds in her lifetime. Another woman…
The word of the day is malediction – the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil. Well, consider that the malediction the cosmos dinged me with is impatience. Patience (?p?-sh?nz) is the state of endurance under difficult circumstances, which can mean persevering in the face of delay or provocation without becoming annoyed or upset; or exhibiting forbearance when under strain, especially when faced with longer-term difficulties. It is also used to refer to…
Wednesday that feels like Monday – a friend used the acronym – BOHICA – I’ll let you figure out what a day like that means with an acronym like BOHICA. But meanwhile, Wolfie, she is becoming more family member like – funny how that happens. Her heart worm treatment will start very soon. When she is going through it, we will have to keep her and her new found best friend Loca apart so that…
I was walking the streets of Boston and was impressed by how many beautiful men Boston seems to always have. What prompted this was a man crossing the street, with gorgeous eyes and a chiseled face and how he looked right into my eyes. I mentioned this to this person next to me and he said, “What’d you care?” Later, I was speaking to a colleague about the bar in Nine Zero where I stayed.…
I was speaking to someone about how moribund the newspaper industry is and he asked me if there was any chance they’d come back. I told him about the rapist in our neighborhood – how the information, the accounts of the attack, the tracking of location, the apprehension was all delivered through emails and text messages – all viral. I never once looked at the newspaper and I was more informed about a crime in…
Flying home on Jet Blue, a photograph of John Updike flashed across the TV monitor and I put my earphones on quickly and gasped to learn that Updike died today. The Rabbit series is possibly the Great American Novel and it surely is the G A N that every writer aspires to write. He will be sorely missed. I wrote John Updike, I believe in 1991 but my letter and his letter back are not…
I don’t know about you but I loved the whole swearing in of Obama except for Warren, who I thought was a cut below everyone else who took the stage. Alexander’s poem was perfect for the day. ELIZABETH ALEXANDER: Praise song for the day. Each day we go about our business, walking past each other, catching each other’s eyes — or not — about to speak or speaking. All about us is noise. All about…
I grew up in many parts of Central America, Puerto Rico, Panama, and the United States. I grew up some more when I traveled to Europe, Asia, Cuba, and many an island in the Caribbean. Yesterday, as Geithner gave his acceptance speech, he said his parents educated him by introducing him to the world. I’m lucky my partner is from the beautiful land of Croatia and our child will be raised swimming in the Adriatic…
A client asked me yesterday what keeps me up at night and I said, knowing that I’m going to have a baby in early June who will keep me up at night. I read this morning that a woman gave birth to octuplets (is that how you spell it?) in California – that would be EIGHT babies. Heroic is all I have to say.