Mojo rehab
After a dismal last week through Friday, then, came Saturday. A friend, another writer in town, called and asked if I wanted to go on a walk. I jumped at the opportunity, despite my sloth-like mentality and went to meet her. We walked, and laughed, and swapped horror stories about clients and writing projects and […]
Happy feet but unsettled everywhere else
Day three of my 365 days of fun … and yes, honestly, I’m surprised, embarrassed, and a bit saddened to report that it is evidently very hard work for me to have fun. I spent most of yesterday organizing, prepping for the week ahead, taking time out only to admire the bluejays, tufted titmice, and […]
Naughty? Nice? Let MC be the judge … 2009 in Review
Was this a year, or what? I’m a huge fan of settling down on New Year’s Eve, putting on my retro shades, and looking back at the crazy, sweet, and just plain foolish shenanigans of the prior 12 months. And this December 31st will find me, a shot of Sambucca at my side, staring out […]
A tigger, not a tiger
“Bouncing is what Tiggers do best.” (A.A. Milne) Ah, and Tiger Woods is bouncing right now. Bouncing in a slightly different way from when he bounced from his mistress(es?) bed to wife’s, but bouncing nevertheless. Bouncing is what tiggers do — that’s all they know how to do. Because a real tiger knows when he’s […]
Alan Grayson Keynotes Dem Club of Sarasota Sunday December 6
“Few Florida politicians have grabbed national attention as quickly and dramatically as freshman U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson.” Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Sunday Nov. 1, 2009, p.1. Yep, Grayson was catapulted onto the national stage when he summed up the Republican’s Health Care Plan as 1) Don’t get sick 2) If you do get sick… 3) die quickly! […]
Healthy, not wealthy, and dumbfounded as a post
Just received my health insurance renewal forms for 2010. My health insurance plan is going up by over $30 a month. I already can’t afford it at $30 less. I’m a fairly healthy woman — no health problems, no medications. My biggest downfalls are too many martinis and not enough exercise (however, my fingers are […]
Cougar myths … debunked!
This column appeared in print in Creative Loafing newspaper 10/7/09. The topic of cougarsome cuties chasing cuddly cradle-dwellers is about as tasty an intellectual morsel as dining at the Olive Garden is a gastronomic one. Whether or not women d’un certain âge have sex with younger men is a topic as culturally passé as older […]
Cogito ergo sum?
For most of my life, I’ve agreed with Descartes — I think, therefore I am. But what about Emerson and his theory about what constitutes a “great soul”? Such a soul, Emerson concluded, is one that has the strength to live truly, madly, deeply, not someone who merely possesses the strength to think.
September 11th … remembered
This is a column I wrote in 2007 … entitled Out on a Limb for Love Another September 11th has come and gone. Six of them now since the first, and we’re still afraid. Maybe even more afraid. Of terrorists, of global warming, of war, of the stock market. But mostly we’re afraid of each […]
Blood-letting
Her hand, a small one according to standards she’s never been able to meet Says, “Look — she is here; let the inquisition begin.” (If she’s told one lie, she’s told ten.) Fingertips poised ready to draw true blue then drop à point to be read once bled. The vellum almost an admonishment: She had […]