A-Void-Ance
The existence of a book analyzing a person’s relative health based on the color, consistency and frequency of bowel movements does not, somehow, surprise me. In fact, when I first read about Josh Richmant and Arish Sheth’s field guide to excrement on Salon.com, I was not entirely bowled over (pun intended). It just seems simple [...]
Friday Round-up
I know, I know, I’m supposed to post something brilliant and snappy to launch the weekend but I’ve got nothing. It snows here again today. Big, fat heavy flakes of you’ve-got-to-be-shitting-me-it’s-almost-April kind of snow. My windshield wipers actually froze up while I was driving down the highway this morning. This mechanical difficulty meant I had [...]
Girl Fight
I know you all are going to think me crazy, another day, another tennis story. I mean who are these people I find to accompany me on the court, you ask? Well, here’s another tale that I hope you’ll find amusing. I’m laughing about it too , until next week when I will either be [...]
Wednesday’s Wandering
Okay, so it’s Wednesday, match day. I’m on the tennis court in a town forty-five minutes away so my post will be brief and frivolous. And since I was forced to watch Idol alone (My Better Half thinks he’s above it and my kids were in bed), I’m just going to scream this one…..DAVID COOK!!!!!
I [...]
Tough Crowd
I was resolved to don my big girl panties and drag myself out of the doldrums. I’d been indulging my foul mood, wallowing in the mud of self immolation. I thought I was finished with all that. I felt ready to greet the new day but then there was the thing that happened at Elementary [...]
Those Kind of Friends
I am an Easter failure. I didn’t plan an egg hunt, there were no bunnies or chicks, no collared shirts or little girl dresses. Hell, we didn’t even color eggs this year. I boiled and chilled a dozen. I purchased food coloring and vinegar. But when it became time to dip the eggs, I felt [...]
Bottom of the Tank
It dawns another ugly gray March day, depressing in its raw hopelessness. It’s supposed to be the advent of Spring. I feel betrayed. Where is my sunshine, my crisp breeze, where are the damn daffodils?
Admittedly, even without Mother Nature’s cruel withholding, I’d still be feeling pretty bleak today. Probably a culmination of two whole [...]
Six Words
I knew it was only a matter of time before it caught up with me. And no I’m not talking about this year’s version of the flu or heroin addiction or the guy whose car I sort of scratched with the grocery cart on Saturday, I’m talking about the dreaded six-word-memoir meme that has been [...]
Gardenias, Revised
So I’ve finally completed the short story I’ve had open for a long time. The writing I’ve done recently makes sense within its context, completes it somehow…
She is just about to shower when Paul begins to rattle the knob and pound at the door. He knows how she hates to be disturbed while mired [...]
Life’s a Bitch
She lives within four grungy walls, yellowed with years of cigarette smoke. A nasty habit. Two packs a day. One check from the government each month must stretch to pay for the run down efficiency that is public housing and the cigarettes and the phone and the romance novels with pinkish-mauve covers, silver embossed titles [...]
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