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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
Answer me this. Have you ever asked yourself whether you flushed the cell phone down the toilet. I know I have asked myself that question a number of times and many of those times are totally random. I won’t have been anywhere near the bathroom yet it crosses […]
This week Nobel prizes were announced and there was a collective, global wide gasp when it was put forth that Bob Dylan won the 2016 Nobel prize for literature. Bob Dylan! I immediately asked if he had written a book lately. Nope. He won for his songwork throughout the […]
I recently held an upper management retreat where I did a silly exercise of what five things each group would want with them if stranded on a remote island. If you had to experience Gilligan’s Island, what would you want besides ear buds so as to not have […]
I see a bad moon rising. I see trouble on the way. I see earthquakes and lightnin’. I see bad times today. I love seeing the moon. It is stunning and brings one to a dreamy world both literally and metaphorically. Can you look at the […]
I am not a huge Ramones fan by any stretch of the imagination. I do not believe I even have one song of theirs on my iPod. They were a punk band before my my time really. And as a South Bronx girl I was not that […]
Many, many years ago, I told everyone that would listen or as that I was not going to have a child. Ever. I was happy without a screaming kid tugging at my skirt. I was happy without a crying baby tugging at my chest at 2am. I […]
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