Midlife Musings, Midriff Expansion (weight gain), Chronicles of Midlife Coming of Age and a few other things
As so often happens, the piece I set out to write that is clearly delineated in my mind, becomes delayed by procrastination, perfection, and the fear of the laboriousness of hammering at it until it is explicit in capturing the exact experience of my emotions and fear of the frustration that occurs because it [...]
With a nod to Keith Olbermann (The Nexus of Politics and Terror), I am going to publish another piece from my book here. I wrote it sometime after the 2004 presidential election, but well before the announcement of Barack Obama’s campaign for the presidency in 2008. The writing is primarily about facial hair growth, but [...]
Some years back, a different element entwined itself into our Trick or Treat offerings. I was moved to add rows of luminarias around the yard and along the brick ledge on the front of our house – not the metal or ceramic luminarias you can buy – but the “made from scratch” kind, using [...]