Art at FIT, French Kiss, and The Final Straw
A raw day. Cold, windy, soaking rains on the way. Got a warm cat and a good book to read but there’s an interesting show… Read More »Art at FIT, French Kiss, and The Final Straw
A raw day. Cold, windy, soaking rains on the way. Got a warm cat and a good book to read but there’s an interesting show… Read More »Art at FIT, French Kiss, and The Final Straw
Tuesday, December 18, 2018 Okay, so my original idea for this final blog post of the year was to write about a couple of really… Read More »Fear, Surrender & One Sick Cat
Jim and I were supposed to have follow-up colonoscopies in 2010 and 2012, respectively. However, we decided to ignore this recommendation, to practice conscious denial,… Read More »Thanksgiving Gratitude: A Colonoscopy is Better than Cancer
Note to Readers: Spoiler alert. You may want to skip the last paragraph if you are going to read American Wolf: A True Story of Survival… Read More »In Memory of Aunt Celie and the Howl of the American Wolf
I live in a cool place. Well, not temperature-wise cool, God knows, (as I write this in the early a.m., it’s already a steamy 83… Read More »The Sea Turtles of Cocoa Beach and God Speed, Guacamole
Monday Night, 6:55 pm: Jim arrives home from work. I hear music blasting from his car radio out in the driveway before he turns the… Read More »Somebody to Lean On – Laura, Lila, Jim and the Old Woman in Cocoa Beach
July 12, 1989, Jim celebrates his 40th birthday. I know him, but not well. We are both employees at The Washington Post, he a Tech… Read More »A Memoir of My Mother-in-Law on What Would Have Been Joan’s Birthday
“Hi, I’m Sarah,” says the young blonde women at the Sea Turtle Preservation Society orientation. I am early (like always) and the first one there.… Read More »Advice from Obama: Coping When Political Division Gets You Down
On what promises to be another sticky, uncomfortable day in early May, a thirty-year-old woman goes into labor. She has a toddler at home so… Read More »Reflections On How Times Have Changed: One Baby Girl: $114.03, Please
American Airlines flight #1593 touches down on the short runway of National Airport and comes to an abrupt stop. I snap this image of the… Read More »This World Will Break Your Heart – and Bind it Back Up Too