Thirty years ago today I got married. I wonder if things would have turned out differently had we picked a more auspicious date than April Fool’s Day. Yesterday I painted a little picture for my sister. It’s of a sad guinea pig. I love guinea pig lips. So does my sister. Why is this pig sad? I don’t know. It’s just how it fell off my brush. Maybe it wishes it were a wrinkle-lipped bat. […]
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A Few of My Favorite Things
My poor mother. Little did she imagine when gave birth to me that she’d still be stuffing my Christmas stocking half a century later. In addition to the usual cotton balls and Band-Aids and Scotch tape, she always tucks in little surprises she’s found among her treasures. This year there was a rose-gold thimble belonging to a mid-1800s relativefootnote, and a small digital device onto which my no-longer-extant father recorded a message: Lulu gave me […]
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I wonder how many raisins I have to eat to get my iron levels back to normal. Here’s a program I produced about twenty years ago. La Llorona — the crying woman — is the Mexican equivalent of the bogeyman in the US: a great story and an effective behavior modification tool. The show aired on NPR’s All Things Considered. I suspect that listeners wondered about the mental stability of the producer. In fact, I […]
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