These days, our eyes hurt continously. Our arms ache and our fingers throb. Our minds race even as we desperately try to fall asleep. We fidget. We pace. We move. We are connected, never disconnected. Instead of leaving a tooth for the tooth fairy, we sleep with electronics […]
Sometimes you just want to go ahead and do something daring. Sometimes you just want to stand out. Sometimes you just want to be part of the crowd. Sometimes both can come together. And why not? Can follow someone else’s drumbeat, I suppose. After all isn’t that what […]
A few years back comedian Lewis Black in a bit but still remains in my, almost everyday, consciousness. He noted in his skit “if it wasn’t for my horse I wouldn’t have spent that year in college.” Some things in life are so absurd but you just have […]
I am an extremely superstitious person. My mom taught me every superstition there is and then some. She not only told me about them but she also taught me to respect them. But being a bit of an independently minded young girl, I didn’t take it all in […]
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 […]
Once upon a time, not so long ago when I was a young girl in the South Bronx, I wanted to be a fairy. I knew about Tinker Bell and I wanted to flitter around as a tiny being who could get in and out of […]
A few days back I noted that I do not care for fairy tales. They are a tad bit boring in my view and rarely offer any originality. But that is not to say I hate all fairy tales. I was always partial to one, that being Beauty […]
Something that I both love and that drives me crazy about New York is the sheer number of crazy conversations you can overhear. You ostensibly don’t need a television while living in New York, as everyday city life in New York is vastly entertaining in itself. I have […]
I will admit to wearing a fitbit. The last few months I have not been all that great exercise-wise, according to the purple but, as I have not always been hotting my daily 10,000 steps goal. See, the fitbit doesn’t care that I have a torn miniscus in […]