Since I got back from South Africa, I have been laid up due to a torn knee muscle. Sometimes, I just have really bad luck. I just suck it up and keep going. I keep going to work. I had to keep finding a way to get […]
I do not like circular arguments. I do not like catch-22s. I do not like people who engage in circular arguments to appear as if they are smart. If you have to try hard to appear a certain way, then you truly are not. But I rant and […]
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 […]
Let me tell you a story. Talk? Dance? What did it all matter when there was a wheelbarrow to turn? There was no crowd to please. Where have you been all my life? I hide. I run. I shake. I shiver. I breathe. I sigh. I need […]
I lived in Europe many years ago for a year. Specifically, I lived in Spain. I have been there, done that in terms of the ex-patriot living abroad thing. It was cool. I would probably live abroad again. However, I probably wouldn’t do it in France. First off, I am […]
The (not-so-funny) comedian Joy Behar recently commented on the Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan rift, by noting that Kelly has no real reason to be angry at being “blindsided”. She noted that is the way show business works. Perhaps that is true. I’m not in show business. […]
She didn’t want to think. She had to swim. She had to swim as if her life depended on it. she realized how dumb that thought was. The cops were in hot pursuit. She couldn’t breathe. She had to reach the blue light. The light […]
He was tired, hungry and scared. He was hungry for company and conversation. He wanted to utter coherent words strung together to form complete thoughts. He wanted someone to hear those words strung together. He wanted someone to respond. He wanted so much. He needed more […]
I get out of the elevator and animatedly wave to the building staff at the front desk wishing them a great day ahead and, if time permits, sharing a New York anecdote as I am the New York girl in the building. I then get into the Uber […]
The volcano awaits! Nothing more exciting than flying into a piece of earth where everything is both diverging and converging and one’s personal space is a fiery air. They wanted to breath in the ash-sooted air and feel fire on their skins one last time before the end of the life […]
