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Raging Hormones and Controlling Boyfriends
Every two or three days, for the past four months, a Google search with the words Daughter, Controlling, and Boyfriend, lead to this post on my site.I find this equally discomforting and comforting.Discomforting that parents are finding their daughters in controlling...
Oh, God Kinds of Goodness
Every once in a while you find a place, that special place that seems to have it all.We recently found such a treat, several such delights, actually.On our trip to Emerald Isle, North Carolina.Warren and me.Alone. On vacation.For the first time in twenty-some years.No...
Joan Didion, Abigail Thomas, and Writing Lists, Memos, Messages
In the past two days, I have written the following: · Numerous text and e-mail responses. · Numerous text and e-mail correspondences. · Two hand-written notes to send in the mail. One to my son. One to the mail lady. · Messages on two birthday cards. · Lengthy...
The Rearview Mirror
View from My Rearview Mirror“You’ve got to quit looking in the rearview mirror."Last June, when I was feeling overwhelmed by the Hamster-Wheel month and a little depression, I had my first appointment with The Therapist.I told her I needed to work on figuring out the...
Rising Sun
My optimum sleep patterns are from 1:30 AM – 8:30.Classic night owl, I feel the most energized if I am awake outside of those hours, and my mind tends to generate some of its best thoughts when the world settles in to retire about ten. Needless to say, I knew when I...
Little White Pills and a Digging for the Light Excerpt
When I popped the top on the little orange bottle this morning, I noticed that I have only about a week’s rations left of my antidepressant. As I swallowed the little white pill, two things came to mind. I thought about a piece from my manuscript Digging for the...