Legacy

by | Aug 22, 2020 | Life and all That

My 51st birthday was a few days ago. It is, more importantly, also my mother’s birthday.  Mother died on September 15th, 1994, exactly one month after her 51st birthday.  In less than a month, if I am still alive (knock on wood!), I will have outlived her whole...

I Need(ed) a Budget (…do you?)

by | Jul 21, 2020 | Life and all That

This post is extrapolated from a set of tweets I made on 7/5/2020, which I decided to save and expand upon here because goddamn is twitter lousy for organizing, searching, or archiving tweets. If you are just here to find out more about the YouNeedABudget app, jump...

A Breath, Then a Pause

by | Apr 24, 2020 | Life and all That

A Breath, Then a Pause  Oddly, the comforting constant of my life has become the air conditioner switching on and off. It is always there in the background, and I can always hear it because generally, I’m always alone. This is not something that bothers me. Being...

Life Like an Ent

by | Mar 24, 2020 | Going on 50, Life and all That

Life Like an Ent The student looked at me in awe. “You were a vegetarian for years?” The idea amazed her. I nodded, not quite sure where this deep admiration was coming from. Yes, I was a vegetarian for years. I would say for the majority of my 20s I was a vegetarian....

Red Tide is OUT

by | Feb 15, 2020 | Life and all That

Red Tide is OUT As I write this, today is February 14th aka Valentines Day. Everything is awash with blood red decorations and it seems so very symbolic because it is also the day that signals the end of my beginning: today is the first day of menopause for me. For...

Freedom is a Word

by | Jan 16, 2020 | Life and all That, Ponderings

Disclaimer: This is an essay about the emotional state of freedom as a mindset, but I do not buy into the belief that we create our entire reality — we live in a world with other people, with politics, with wars, with disease. Externally, we are all restricted at some...