Every year my Irish dance friends have a New Year’s party, but since my memory reaches back only a minute or two, I’d forgotten about that when I registered for the New Year’s Eve happening at Spirit Rock. As I think I’ve written here before, I’m very weird about New Year’s Eve. I always imbue the ritual transition with significance beyond all reason. As the countdown begins I go into a true panic about what […]
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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 […]
Read moreAn Important Birthday
Merry Christmas! I often lose sight of the significance of this day, but this year I’d like to acknowledge the birthday of a most important person. Congratulations on turning 50, Shane McGowan. I’m so glad (and surprised) you’re still alive! It was Christmas Eve, babe, In the drunk tank… I was awoken at the crack of ten by the arrival of my unexpectedly punctual elder daughter. I was delighted and surprised to see that she’d […]
Read moreRed Blood
Today marked the return of the prodigal daughter. To celebrate, we went to my physical therapy appointment. On the way home we got a noble fir. For our midnight tree decorating session, Tennessee Ernie Ford was Lulu’s music bed of choice. Then I put on one of my favorite Christmas ditties: St. Stephen’s Day Murders by Elvis Costello and Paddy Moloney. With his gin-flavored whiskers and kisses of sherry, His best Chrimbo shirt slung out […]
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