Tag: dance

The Best Year Yet?

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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Down in the Valley

Today I drove the hour-and-a-half into the big valley to Lulu’s dorm to pick up the cacti and dirty laundry that are coming home for Christmas break. When I arrived, the building was spitting out a stream of young people as alarms blared and corridor lights flashed. The exiting kids looked at me funny as I marched on in. They don’t yet know that no one can stop a mother in search her child or […]

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Freedom

On Monday morning I got my cast off. Right afterwards, I shaved my right leg and flew to LA. I love the funky North Hollywood hotel where I stay. Its café (Café 101) has stellar french fries. Speaking of stellar, the establishment is reputed to be frequented by stars but I’ve never seen any. Just people who dress like them. I came home after the Pacifica Radio Archives fund drive the next night. [I’d been […]

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