I haven’t posted anything since my last column because frankly, I’ve had a festering resentment for this little space of mine. Sounds disgusting and unsanitary, I know. And it might be, so don’t get too close to your screen as you read this. I simply lost all desire to write when I looked at the [...]
(As published in today’s issue of San Diego CityBeat.)
Unlike the previous 11 years, we didn’t make the trek to Wisconsin this Thanksgiving. The cheapest flights, at roughly $600 apiece, included four-hour layovers on either end of our mid-week excursion. Now, I might be crazy, but I’m not insane: Anyone embedded with a 3-year-old knows that [...]
“Would you care for an olive? Auntie Mame says olives take up too much room in a little glass.”
—Patrick Dennis
Being a mother makes you crazy. I used to think The Crazy was directly correlated to the act of squeezing a human being out of a too-small opening, making me immune because I adopted. Initially, there [...]
(As published today in San Diego CityBeat. Oh, and I made the California Sex Offender News!!! Hilarious.)
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Snuggled firmly between Tibet and India is the world’s newest democracy, a tiny country called Bhutan, where last Thursday, a very young and handsome man had a colorful raven-topped crown placed upon his head by his father, officially anointing [...]
I drove Ruby to school on Tuesday morning just like I do every Tuesday morning and as I turned from North Park Way onto 32nd Street, I saw these two angels standing on a corner.
They were huddled together beneath their umbrella in what had to be the first real rain storm we’ve had in San [...]
On rotation in our DVD player right this minute is “Happy To Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me.” My friend Kelly gave it to me shortly after Ruby came home with instructions to watch it as soon as possible. Never mind that my child wouldn’t be interested in it for years. “I promise: You’ll [...]
(A version of this appears in today’s issue of San Diego CityBeat.)
Remember Easy Cheese, the processed cheese-ooze that came in a can? In high school, my friends and I used to cut class, get high, squirt gobs of the stuff onto Triscuits, listen to Pink Floyd and discuss What It All Means. The conclusion? There’s [...]
All day, I’ve been wadding up the cyber paper into cyber balls and cyber launching them into the cyber wire wastebasket across the room. It’s now overflowing onto the floor but I think I finally have something I can keep.
Hope is my religion, love is my God, and acts in the service of peace, justice and equality are my practice. I believe that you and I are of the same tribe. Visualize what you want.
-An email from a friend
In the sci-fi thriller Brainstorm, scientists develop a helmet that enables the wearer to inhabit the [...]
From Deb, Write a poem in 10-minutes or less, 250 words or less. Include the following three phrases:
“I tie a ribbon in a foolish way”
“The delicious fragility of this travesty”
“Where we still laugh and wish”
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I can’t stand the delicious fragility of this travesty one second longer.
His face was twisted and red.
I’m sorry, I said. Were [...]
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