Pandemonium: a chaotic situation; tumult. Pandemic: a global outbreak of disease. NOTE: The COVID-19 pandemic is real and it’s devastating. In the following posts, I am in no way minimizing what good folks around the globe are facing in loss of income, sense of security or family members. This is simply a look into my […]

Happy New Year dear readers! I assume this finds you, like me, breaking resolutions right and left as we stumble into 2019 praying that by the end of the year, the Dems can pull their shit together and find some suitable candidates who can end the Grand Blowhard’s dream of a second term. While that […]

Having recently celebrated a birthday in grand style (Alpha J pulled out the stops and with my other dear peeps, orchestrated a surprise party at my fave restaurant), I can’t help but think back to my last big bday, the one that ended in a zero. Married 27 years at that point, my husband, mr. […]

“She has her grief and care, yeah, yeah, yeah But the soft words they are spoke so gentle, yeah It makes it easier, easier to bear, yeah You won’t regret it no, no… Young girls they don’t forget it Love is their whole happiness… But it’s all so easy All you got to do is […]

My good gal pal Big T joined me for yoga this morning. As we rolled our mats out and sat cross-legged before class began, she spotted a tall, slender, sliver-haired, pleasant faced man in the row ahead of us wearing a trendy LuluLemon zip top and shorts. “Wow, who’s that?” she asked in the way […]

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.” The late, […]

I had lunch a couple of weeks ago with a new man whose past intersects with mine since we both have roots in the same midwestern city. As our first date was winding down, he asked if I wanted to continue the journey and see a movie. We’d spent four hours getting to know one […]

Where do the years go? My peeps and I share this lament often, making us sound, well, our age I guess. I blinked and it was 2018, the Year of the Earth Dog according to Chinese astrologers. What’s that mean for me, born in the Year of the Snake? According to said astrologers, it will […]

“Life just doesn’t care about our aspirations, or sadness. It’s often random, and it’s often stupid and it’s often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.” Khaled Hosseini, author of “The Kite Runner,” a heartbreakingly beautiful […]

Collateral damage: Injury inflicted on something other than an intended target; specifically civilian casualties of a military operation. As Hurricane Irma cut her deadly swath across the Caribbean and headed straight for south Florida, I was on high alert like those crazy storm chasers. Since I’m clear across the country, all wrapped up in the […]