Growing up in the South Bronx I was very familiar with the sounds of music late, late into the night. And I do not mean yodeling with Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. Instead, there was salsa, merengue and freestyle music blasting into the night on a boom box. Ah, […]
When I was a kid, one of my nicknames besides Mimi was “chatterbox”. I talked and talked. I was an only child until the age of nine. I was used to being the center of attention and to just talking up a storm just about anything. I read […]
I let you down You died before my eyes I saw your eyes cry You didn’t understand Why didn’t I hold you? Why didn’t I cusp your face? Why didn’t I touch your hand? I’m ashamed I’m battered I’m adrift Pain killed you Pain kills me Pain inures […]
Have you ever heard the song “Here’s where the story ends” by the Sundays? The song is a couple of decades old and was popular on college radio back in the day. It has a soft, pleasing melody that somewhat hides a darker vision of the world. Notably, […]
I woke up at 2am with a leaky eye. I was frightened that I now had an eye infection as well as my cough and ear pain. I watched the television show Scorpion to help help me fall back asleep. The problem with doing that is that the […]
I don’t have it in me to write tonight. My pen to paper action is dead in the water. Or rather, my keyboard action is nill. I am lethargic, achy and uninspired. I had a million and one things to write about when I woke up this morning […]
This has been a couple long weeks. I could have ended this with that sentence and moved on. But I shall endeavor to be pithy. Eh. Not really. I shall endeavor to satisfice. But just stating that makes me angsty. Do you know what satisficing is? its that […]
There is a song I have been continously humming this past week. Actually I have been humming it for a month or so as my life was starting to feel a bit chaotic. Have you heard of the song by Greg Laswell called Dodged a Bullet? It is […]
I love making to-do lists. Everyday in the morning I grab my yellow pad and bright blue pen and start making my daily to-do list. Well, I overstuff my lists so that they actually lists more tasks than are humanly possible to do on one day. Thus, my […]
This coming week marks one year that I will have been living in Los Angeles. This is huge for me. This is huge for my family. This is especially huge as we were considering moving yet again. Both my son and I miss New York. He loves […]
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