Whatever life dishes out, and whatever we can make of it. . .
Posted in Culture, Lifestyle, Morning Musing, Travel on Mar 12th, 2010
Are all stereotypes true? When we generalize about people or a place, is that bad? Is judging something as “bad” – bad?
Stereotypes and generalizations
Yesterday I wrote about why I find France, and French men irresistible. And everything I wrote was true – to me. As for the stereotypes and generalizations about French men? I stand [...]
Posted in Health, Lifestyle, Morning Musing, Surviving Recession on Mar 9th, 2010
Avoidance (Procrastination?)
Let’s be clear. Avoidance is not the same as procrastination. Avoidance is a fine art unto itself. A coping strategy. No 12-step program required.
I am avoiding the email account I use for “dating.” Thus, I don’t have to deal with the issue of Date Night Guy.
I am avoiding calling the company where I [...]
Posted in Health, Lifestyle, Morning Musing on Mar 7th, 2010
I’m ransacking the cerebral files, the dream bank, the piggy bank.
Hell, I’d empty the sperm bank if I had one around and thought it would help me crack a smile. I’d shake shake shake as much as I could from any of those vessels, to collect a clinking coin or drizzly drop of humor. More [...]
Posted in Art Art Art, Lifestyle, Parenting on Feb 9th, 2010
Unanticipated pleasure
Last evening, for three hours, I hovered in the pleasure zone, my brain and body exquisitely in sync. This was delight the likes of which I haven’t felt in six months, or perhaps as long as a year. The kind of pleasure, intense and pervasive, that obliterates worry and fatigue as all the universe [...]
Posted in Culture, Lifestyle, Morning Musing, Parenting on Feb 4th, 2010
I was a reading a news report this morning, a serious one, about a young man who died on the rails of the French metro system, in a freakish incident. He was grabbed from the crowd at random, and pulled in front of an arriving train by a crazy man who took a complete stranger [...]
Posted in Business, Lifestyle, Morning Musing, Parenting, Relationships on Jan 18th, 2010
Do you consider yourself a confident driver, but not reckless? Skilled at night, and smart in treacherous weather conditions? Yet you squirm when you’re not behind the wheel, right? Good driver, bad passenger.
So what does that say about you?
Need to lead?
Are your driving habits one more sign of how you conduct other areas of your [...]
Posted in Culture, Lifestyle, Other Stuff, Parenting, Politics, Sexual Politics on Jan 8th, 2010
Violence shocks us when it comes at the hands of a woman. Yet some women are violent, and aggression is part of human nature. Most of us learn to curtail it; we reserve it for self-defense or the protection of our loved ones. But as children – and particularly for boys – those natural inclinations [...]
Posted in En Français, Lifestyle, Love, Morning Musing, Other Stuff, Sexy Shoes in the City on Jan 4th, 2010
Fear of flying – not
I once convinced a tree service owner to belt me into a harness and haul me up some 80 feet into the air, so I might see what it was like. It is something I had always wanted to experience. Other than a bit of stress to the feminine regions due [...]
Posted in Culture, Dreams, Language, Lifestyle, Love, Other Stuff, Parenting, Relationships on Dec 31st, 2009
Dear 2010, and the nine years that follow:
I am bracing myself. I step over the threshold to meet you with awareness of my own fragility, shadows hovering, and a crystal ball that seems to be on the fritz. My machinery is in disrepair and I am past due for a talented handy man. I am [...]
Posted in Culture, Language, Lifestyle, Morning Musing, Parenting, Surviving Recession on Dec 23rd, 2009
Do you waste time? Do you feel guilty about it? Are you sure the time you consider wasted is – in fact – without use or value?
Keith, of Almighty Dad, mentioned something casually in a comment earlier this week, in reminding himself to be more present. He referred to time he wasted during the year, [...]
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