Whatever life dishes out, and whatever we can make of it. . .
Posted in Love, Morning Musing, Other Stuff, Parenting on Sep 2nd, 2010
Yesterday I was doing some editing and talking on the phone, when I was told to look at the news. A man had taken hostages at the Discovery Channel just outside of Washington, DC. There was a gun, and possibly explosives. I got off the phone. I put on CNN. I watched, and then had [...]
Posted in Lifestyle, Love, Morning Musing, Other Stuff, Parenting on Aug 31st, 2010
I don’t know when it happened, exactly. Whether I flipped a switch, or the lighting changed more gradually, as if a dimmer had slowly illuminated a new space. But I recognize that it happened some time ago, and it feels like a natural process – inhabiting this territory where the focus is off my experience [...]
Posted in Lifestyle, Love, Morning Musing on Jul 12th, 2010
I recognized his writing immediately. His cursive was unmistakable. Even all these years later, I knew its wide, angular style.
He used to send love letters. I hadn’t seen them in years – not since the last time I was searching in my dresser and came across the small sheaf of envelopes tucked under photographs and [...]
Posted in Dreams, Lifestyle, Love, Other Stuff, Parenting on May 19th, 2010
Oddities
I woke early, heart racing, dark dreams prickling – my own version of a global thriller, complete with missing mid-century masterpieces, a chase scene through a foreign airport, running for my life across an unknown border, and the face of the enemy in pursuit.
Frankly, I kept waiting for action hero Jason Bourne to pop up. [...]
There is something I am not seeing. There must be.
I am unable to fight back the waves. I erect a barrier, and it holds, briefly. Then it crumbles, and I am knocked down and submerged. I pull myself up and rebuild, as another wall of water rises beneath a deceptive sky. And I am down [...]
Posted in Lifestyle, Love, Morning Musing, Parenting on Apr 30th, 2010
When marriage ends
In my morning reading, I came across an article in Forbes Woman that struck a chord. It concerns Stacy Morrison, former Editor-in-Chief of Redbook, speaking about her divorce and its aftermath in her new book, Falling Apart in One Piece: One Optimist’s Journey Through the Hell of Divorce.
This isn’t the stuff of celebrity [...]
Posted in Health, Lifestyle, Love, Morning Musing, Parenting on Apr 21st, 2010
It’s 6:00 a.m., and there’s nothing I can do.
I have coffee brewing. My first cup. Café au lait for my son, if he wants it. But I’m keeping my distance right now. And I can feel the knot in my stomach. The sense of helplessness.
He’s slamming doors and yelling at himself. Then he will [...]
Posted in Business, Culture, Language, Lifestyle, Love, Morning Musing, Sex, Sexual Politics on Apr 19th, 2010
Do you think like a man?
Men do not equivocate. They do not couch their opinions in language that weakens the message. Women acquire softened speech, a habit of qualifying, and it pervades thought, feeling, and perception.
I am a woman. Yet I do not equivocate in my choice of words, my body language, or my decision-making. [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Lifestyle, Love, Other Stuff on Mar 28th, 2010
A Stolen Life
In 1946, Bette Davis played a dual role in A Stolen Life, the story of identical twins with very different personalities. It is a melodramatic, predictable yet thoroughly enjoyable film that has always stuck with me. I imagine it is a desire to call upon my own evil twin, to give voice to [...]
Posted in Culture, Lifestyle, Love, Morning Musing, Parenting on Mar 25th, 2010
Those who provide the comforting advice that “one day, your kids will know what you gave up for them” are well-intentioned, and even kind. What parent doesn’t want to believe that appreciation will come for all our efforts, at some point in the future?
But I question the premise, the concept of eventual “justice” when [...]
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