Happines As Art Form
posted 3 days ago and has 5 comments
"I'm not happy." How often I have heard someone say that, and I have begun to wonder what that means, exactly. Is that person merely dissatisfied, or are they abysmally miserable? Does it mean they were thwarted in some effort, or did not receive ...
Teenage Boys - The AKKKK Pack
posted 17 days ago and has 3 comments
Today I had the pleasure of taking my 14 year-old-grandson to the mall to shop for jeans. The one huge, gangly teenage male quickly morphed into three additional huge, gangly, cologne-doused teen males. My car smelled like a cheap whore house. I i...
Driving...er....Teaching Miss Daisy
posted 2 months ago and has 6 comments
I have been driving so long, I can no longer remember a time when I didn't drive. But what I CAN remember is teaching my three daughters to drive. Their father didn't have the patience for it. Actually, what he really didn't have were the nerves o...
Yesterday I Met David
posted 2 months ago and has 11 comments
While I was overseeing my students working in the modelo (the computer section of the library), a man approached me and started a conversation in fairly decent English. I was astonished, but delighted to talk to him.
I was also at great pains to ...
I was also at great pains to ...
Mourning Memorial Day
posted 2 months ago and has 5 comments
I am having a lot of trouble with Memorial Day this year. I don't know why it is affecting me so. My first thought is of Viet Nam and my activist anti-war efforts, and of the men (and women) who were killed and damaged in that ridiculous war.
And...
And...
Viet Nam and Memorial Day
posted 3 months ago and has 18 comments
This year, for a reason I cannot fathom, I find myself terribly affected by Memorial Day.
I am taken back to the era of the Viet Nam war, to my activist days, to my anti-war protests and activities. I remember watching this war on TV...the first...
I am taken back to the era of the Viet Nam war, to my activist days, to my anti-war protests and activities. I remember watching this war on TV...the first...
Big Mamas
posted 3 months ago and has 4 comments
Someone posed the question 'Where are all the Big Mamas today?' Those daunting older women of our youth who just by their presence gave form and structure to our little societies, who had that 'eye', who we all knew had a handle on life and how to...
Promises, Promises
posted 3 months ago and has 2 comments
Ahhh, a promise, that cross-your-heart-hope-to-die pledge so easily made, so much more easily broken. Have you ever thought about the terminology of 'breaking your promise', a 'broken promise'? They don't actually 'break', do they, like a porcelai...
Nothing Left to Lose
posted 3 months ago, updated 1 minute later and has 2 comments
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. Bob Dillon? Janice Joplin? Ahh, yes, Janice Joplin, 'Me and Bobby MaGee'. And so true, too. We are never really free until we reach that state, that condition of nothing left to lose. Our posse...
Listening To Rocks Grow
posted 3 months ago and has 8 comments
How often are we totally silent, doing absolutely nothing? Sometimes we need to just shove aside all those thoughts that ramble around in our heads, and feel the blood pump in our veins, hear the air move around us, see the textures of our surroun...
