My apologies but there were just too many tunes scratching at my brain with the kind of insistent talons only songs can have. Rather than endure that singular torture a melody that won't let you go can inflict, there's a Part 2 to my initial "Songs With Names in their Titles" playlist. Again, ...
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Emily Dickinson famously said “Hope is the thing with feathers.” Bullshit.
Dr. House once said, "Hope is for sissies". I agree. Hope is the anchor that keeps your boat docked while it waits for a passenger who won’t likely come. Hope envelopes you in a thicket of thorns while you wait for ...
Aging is not for the faint of heart, often literally. When I thought about getting older (which I, seldom, sadly, never did #sunscreen) I guess I just assumed I’d be the same me only, well, older. I don’t know what I expected but I do know what I never expected. As a runner and bodybuilder, I ...
“I’ll begin with a reign of terror.” So says the title character in H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man, but I’m not so ruthless. Even if I wanted to be ruthless I just don’t have the energy. Being an older woman in a culture that most values youth and beauty in “the second sex” makes me largely ...
You’re pro-life? Hey, me too! When I saw an earthworm drowning in a puddle, I scooped it up with a leaf and gently laid it down on some grass. When I see people fishing, I turn away because the idea of a fish losing his (or her) life makes me sad. I think of all its fish friends wondering ...
My face needs a lot of fixing, apparently. I had a coupon to go to one of those “medical spas” –shiny places people go for shiny faces. People go there to remove spots, pores, hair, wrinkles, fat and freckles. The kind of place that immediately springs to mind whenever I see a face ...
Kathleen Turner talked of once getting a script that described her character as “35 but still attractive”. (Feels like the writer wanted to put the word ‘somehow’ in there.) Ah, men.
You can’t say aging women are afraid of “losing their looks” because we are all aging women. I was ...
"Denial is not a river in. Egypt." Nope, it's our entire country, America, easily distracted by the next shiny object and numbed with a presumption of resilience. It’s been less than four months since our nation’s capital was minutes – not days, not hours, minutes – away from being taken ...
Instead of listening to what people say, watch what they do. There can be quite a chasm between what people say they’re about and who they actually are. They’ll say they’re for this or that, that they’re against this or that, but when push comes to shove it turns out their principles are ...
These are the times when men’s souls need to try. To try hard. Though a flagrantly, famously corrupt sociopath is no longer our country’s kingpin, he still holds one of the political parties and nearly half our citizens in his grip. When Biden was elected, those who oppose fascism ...
Who’s to say who is pretty, ugly, fat, thin, rich, poor, smart, stupid, good, evil, crazy, not-so-crazy? Few things in life are concrete dividers as to what you are. But we women are handed a fairly distinct marker that tells us we are no longer young, and I don’t mean ...
People are saying everything is going to be OK. But here's what I learned:
I learned most people in our country are really, dangerously stupid.
I don't just mean they can't tell you Copernicus discovered the Earth revolves around the sun stupid, or can't tell you who the Axis ...
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