As a child, I fantasized that my real parents would search me out. Some days, the only possible explanation for the ever-widening gulf between me and the rest of my family, and the sheer impossibility that I could share any genetic material with the boy I was told is my brother, was that I’d been […]
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The Search for my Biological Parents
Posted in Aging, Family, Isolation/Belonging, Parenting on November 6, 2013 | 1 Comment »
The Guy with the Angry Face
Posted in Aging, Anger, Existential, Isolation/Belonging, Relationships on September 29, 2013 | 1 Comment »
I knew a guy who was surprised that people continually got mad at him, got up and moved further away if he sat next to them in a movie theater, looked past him if he were next in line, seemed forever to misunderstand and provoke him. In response, he seemed perpetually angry.
A Parable
Posted in Birds, Emotions/Inner World, Friendship, Natural World, Responsibility on September 25, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
I. The Fat Squirrel We are host to a greedy squirrel. It hangs its ever-widening body off the pagoda roof of the bird feeder, tail above feet above head, furiously stuffing morsels into its mouth, creating a rain shower of corn kernels and seeds in the frenzy to get more. It squats on its […]
Getting Lost
Posted in Children, Existential, Fear, Mothers, Parenting, Wisdom on September 7, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
The topic of the lecture was to find the good in the unexpected, the benefit of having to veer off one course and, before plotting the next, experience the freedom of getting lost. To set out without knowing where one is going. To wander for 40 years, if need be, before making one’s way to […]
I only smoke ’em when The Wife’s away.
Posted in Husbands, Marriage, Wives on August 24, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
I overhead this two checkout lanes away at the grocery store. I think he was talking about cigars. But it could have been cigarettes. Could have been pot, although as yet we can’t by pot at the grocery store. Give it time, give it time.