I’m built like a mullet. Business in the front, party in the back. What is it about an awkward ten-or-eleven-year-old that screams, “please call attention to my body?” That was the time when my body started developing; my family fretted that I might be swaybacked and admonished me to stand up straight. At dances, the [...]
Yeah it’s still the same Can’t you feel the pain When the needle hits the vein Ain’t nothing like the real thing Yesterday, I ran across the Golden Gate Bridge and back. At Vista Point, where you can actually see how ridiculously photogenic San Francisco can be, and how clever it was of Irving Morrow [...]
This has been a very hectic summer, full of rushing to and from camps and lessons, Janelle Monae, fresh vegetables, and guinea pigs. I have, however, completed some crafting, most of it in the last two weeks. Knitting Finally finished the Cat Bordhi Discovery Sock. Pattern: Discovery Sock from Personal Footprints for Insouciant Sock Knitters [...]
Passover is almost over. For the first time since 2001 or thereabouts, I did not host a Passover Seder. (I attended two seders, both of which were lovely.) I did not cook an unforgivably unpalatable kosher-for-passover dessert, nor did I set a glass of water beside Elijah’s cup for Miriam, nor did I explain the [...]
I was raised to believe I could keep bad things from happening to me, as a woman, if I just followed certain rules. The women in my life, trying, no doubt, to protect me, taught me these rules. When a woman was abducted and killed while leaving a nighttime party in a miniskirt, I was [...]
