In the week between Christmas and New Year’s, the week in which the only retail purchases I make are those you can make in the small local grocery store, I ran out of stamps. I held off, though; principles are principles. By January second, I had bills that had to go out. I also had […]
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The Postal Clerk Said a Bad Word
Posted in Aging, Anger, Community, Emotions/Inner World, Personal Growth, Post Office, Restaurants, Shops on January 11, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Aunt Marion’s Pistachio Torte
Posted in Aging, Cooking/Food & Wine, Emotions/Inner World, Family, Legacies, Relationships on November 23, 2012 | 1 Comment »
My Great Aunt turns 88 this Christmas. Growing up, she was the baker in the family. She whipped sponge cakes to 10 inch height. By hand. She had a tall metal bowl and a whisk. She walked around her kitchen stirring and walking and stirring and walking until she determined that she had them exactly […]
The Mists of Asphalt
Posted in Aging, Books, Emotions/Inner World, Fantasies, Girls, Grandparents, Women on October 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I think I saw a faerie the other day. I wasn’t expecting to, but no one sees faeries by setting out to do so. First I saw only her car: boxy and angular, the white exterior paint dulled slightly with age. A regal anomaly among the sleek, smooth, rounded vehicles that dominate the road. My […]
On Women Getting Shorter
Posted in Aging, Boys, Growing up, Men, Mothers, School, Sons on September 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I get that I’m not a tall woman, but I don’t think of myself as short. “My legs reach all the way to the ground,” I can be heard saying. I have accepted my height, that many women are taller than me, and that I seem to have sufficient height to do anything I need […]
The TV is Turned Up, Way Up
Posted in Aging, Emotions/Inner World, Isolation/Belonging, Marriage on May 15, 2012 | 1 Comment »
My folks are visiting. The soundtrack of their visit turns the volume of all devices, including throats, up to 11. [They’ve never seen This is Spinal Tap and if they did, would likely not find it particularly funny].