I turned 67 last Sunday. I got to have a backyard visit with a handful of important-to-me people, including Molly and Josh. PT brought a cake in my favorite color. I also had a Zoom chat with my Chico family. Eleni adorned herself appropriately for the occasion. This week I got to spend even more time at the dentist. She used a drill that was the loudest and most bone-rattling of any I’ve ever experienced. […]
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Dental Waterboarding
How did it get to be the end of May already? I want the world to know that my beloved Lulu turned 32 two days ago! And in two days, it’s my own Big Day. I remember working on a national radio series about American holiday traditions with my buddy Adi many years ago. On my 35th birthday, when Molly was four days old, I got a call from the accounting office at the Corporation […]
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Hello, strangers. It’s been ages. What’s new? Well, I am more frightened than ever about the future of this country: the perpetuation of Drumpf’s Big Lie and the millions of dangerous white fools, many in high places, who buy into it; gun violence; the delusional wing of Republicans in general; assaults against Black Americans and Asian Americans, not to mention rampant xenophobia in general; continuing tragedy at our border; the social and economic impact of […]
Read moreDay 36: Dogless in Albany
Squirrels are taking over the universe. Sometimes there are three or four at once chasing each other around my tiny backyard. Yesterday several of them leapt into my little peach tree and proceeded to eat all the blossoms off. Five minutes ago I heard a scuffle on my porch over there, five feet behind me. A pair of the devils was tussling right on the other side of the screen door, which had popped slightly […]
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