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Yes, you can have too many books. People who believe this is impossible? Well, that’s fine for them. I have thousands of books in my house. My husband has a thousand more of his own. I only read about seventy books a year, plus newspapers online, stories and poetry in journals and, again, online. Sometimes…
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I suppose this means I should complete my editing before posting. On 8 February 2019, I found I had 100 followers. That makes my day. Seriously. This is true especially because I wrote about common-sense self care as part of countering depression. Every time I have tried to post anywhere about depression, I’ve been attacked.…
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Early in the first episode of season 14 of Silent Witness, a hospital doctor completely loses it as he observes patients in an outdoor lounge smoking dope and cigarettes and drinking beer and soda. He knocks smokes and cans out of their hands, shrieking: “What is the point?!” They will not regain health if they…
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As a child I hated green olives and blue cheese. Today these two foods are among my favorites. Coffee. And napping—once resisted absolutely. Brushing my teeth. Boredom. I have changed my mind many times and about a lot of things. Sometimes what we love and who we are seem to be at odds. There is…
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Normal human beings want to take care of the people they love. Poor children, asked to imagine what they most want, most often want to buy their mother a house. Normal people, given more money than they need, share. If their best friend is hungry, they offer half their sandwich. If they see them hitchhiking…
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“Sandra Cisneros, the Mexican American novelist whose books “The House on Mango Street” and “Woman Hollering Creek” are widely considered contemporary classics of American literature, has won the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. “Cisneros is the third author to win the annual award, after Syrian poet Adonis in 2017 and Irish novelist Edna O’Brien…
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I always want to coach them. Relax your hands and use your arms to reinforce the work of your body. Step light as you can, without tensing anywhere. Chin level to keep your airway wide open. Walking breaks are fine. Find a better sport bra, better shoes, better gear all around. Instead I walk on.…
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There is currently a measles outbreak, mostly among people about 80 miles east of me. I wonder about being revaccinated. If I liked my new doctor better, I would go in and have my titer tested to find out if I am protected. I probably should do that anyway. Despite having had both kinds of…
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I was ill recently, only a cold according to the NP, but one that many seem to have suffered from over weeks and months. I hoped to avoid that as I had not been sick for five years, not since the last time I forgot my flu shot. I forced myself to rest. To eat.…
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I have worried about my weight since I was 13 years old and weighed 117 pounds. All my girlfriends felt, as I did, that we should lose weight. I was thin. I did not understand that. I still receive the message that I should lose weight. More often I am told I should not worry…
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