I went to see E the other day as quitting smoking in the midst of all the other chaos in my life was probably not the smartest thing I’ve ever done. Well, the truth is that I started smoking because of the chaos and it truly wasn’t helping so why keep it up. She said I often talk about the fact that watching my mother be so vulnerable to my nutty father is what made…
The black swans that populated City Park were taken away by the Federal Flood and then replaced by kindly zoo keepers from other parts. Only those didn’t last either. Seems a black swan, like a black young man, are hard to keep alive in this city. And yet they are so beautiful to behold. Yesterday, at the sculpture garden in City Park, the groundskeepers had cordoned off a nest where the black swan was keeping…
Ever notice in old science fiction movies how the people are bald? Well, at swimming the other day a woman walked in who could have been my twin – I mean cue ball head and all. I thought now would you look at that. Maybe all those movies from the past were really images of the future as we all develop alopecia from the stress of modern life. There have been so many people I’ve…
I have mentioned before a woman I sat next to at a conference a few years ago in New York – who happened to be the motivational speaker – didn’t know it at the time, but she left my side and went up and delivered a rousing talk about how to think differently about change. The key notes of her talk is that sometimes you need to place more awareness not on the goal, but…
A friend was on her way over to the LaLa right before I left for D.C., she said she had been listening to a woman who ran a marathon and when asked by everyone who she was going to sponsor or run for, she said she put on the back of her jersey, “I am doing this for me.” And so when I was in D.C. lying in bed, I received an email from a…
In 2009, we went to a friend’s house for the inauguration of President Barack Obama and his family into the White House. We dressed up, we surrounded ourself with like-minded friends, and we danced and hollered the night away riding the high of Obama’s HOPE dream. This year, for the inauguration of Obama’s second term, I went to D.C. with friends to stand outside in the mall and witness it up close and personal with…
I was standing in Zumba on Monday a week ago when friends said they were headed to D.C. to the inauguration. “Why don’t you come?” Oh right, as if I could just get on a plane right now with everything going on, and … . “You know it will all be here when you get back.” And so didn’t I scramble, for a flight, to finish my project, to try to find a ball gown,…
I’ve been dogging it out with all these big decisions and changes and details and now the time has come to have fun! More will be revealed ……
On my mother’s deathbed I asked her how I would recognize her if she was present in my life and she said, “Dog.” Something that at the time I thought was the amusing whisper of a dying woman who always had a little bit of the jokester in her. But then when Tin was in the hospital to have his tear ducts opened and I called to her to be with me and thought I…