Identity Politics
Way back in 1992 it was considered deviant to have a tattoo. People with tattoos fell into categories like punk, artist, biker and the formerly incarcerated. This meant that I […]
Category Archives: The Past
What We Remember
A friend I met when I was 12 is now in critical condition in the ICU. A friendship that started in middle school covers a lot of history. Successes and […]
A Sweet New Year
Feeling a bit like a tumbleweed tossed around by life at the moment. Family and friends, a wedding and a funeral, rituals and milestones that mark time. Being equal parts […]
Women I’ve Known
The people who produce the William-Sonoma catalog are diabolical. Dinner plates in soft pastels, serving dishes with whimsical bunnies, botanical linens all scattered with charming alabaster eggs. It arrives in […]
Gee Haw Whammy Diddle
My sister and niece were over the house to celebrate my daughters 16th birthday yesterday and, as usual, a bizarre bit of our childhood folklore floated to the surface of […]
Check Your Head
The neighborhood I grew up in appears desolate and broken. Ten miles from where I live, its at least ten years since I’ve driven down those streets. I made the […]
It’s everyone’s responsibility to end domestic violence
Every once in a while I wake up with a migraine so bad it gives me black eyes. Like my nose caught a softball. Or a fist. That’s today. Pain […]
Soft Serve
The street where I grew up boasted a soft serve ice cream stand on the corner called Gigi’s. At Gigi’s you could get vanilla, chocolate or, my favorite, a twist […]
I Never Played an Ingenue
When I stepped away from actively doing any theater I also stopped attending the kinds of plays I had liked to perform in and direct. I had a hard time […]
Beauty Scape
I came very late to the habit of going to the salon. For 30 years I wore my hair very long (and usually pinned up in a bun). For 15 […]
Guest Rant: I Did Not Love My Mother
I re-post this as a salute to my friend who is brave, kind and more than just a pretty-good Mom. A Mother’s Day Essay A Pretty Good Mom An ugly […]
Willpower
There is a years long construction project near where I work. It has been fascinating to watch the process, passing by in the morning thinking ‘I wonder what that crane […]
Steel Cables
Been thinking a lot about obligations lately. What you owe to colleagues, family, friends, society – why and how the calculations are made. Fortunately, when I get caught in a […]
Book of Life
Searching desperately through 99,000 emails for one that I know I saved, I discovered something a friend sent after we left a particularly long strategic planning session, several strategic plans […]
Queer
The word Queer is one I have not used in a very long time. When I was in middle and high school we (meaning the girls) used it as a […]
