Women's Issues Midlife And Beyond
“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people†– Leo Burnett There, on the wall of the gallery, was a large photograph of a peony. “That was taken on an iPhone,†said Matt Mathiasen, the kind-hearted man walking me through the art grant process. I walked closer to the image…. Read More
 “Now every girl is expected to have Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a California tan, a Jamaican dance hall ass, long Swedish legs, small Japanese feet, the abs of a lesbian gym owner, the hips of a nine-year-old boy, the arms of Michelle Obama, and doll tits. The person… Read More
When I was a child, I discovered the joys of printing the alphabet on wide-ruled, unbleached paper that were so cheaply made it contained bits of wood that would catch my pencil lead and cause my carefully formed letters to go astray. I learned that if I practiced making the letters reach the appropriate lines on the paper -solid lines… Read More
 He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. ~Leo Tolstoy  How do you leave a note of love? Ever since I began dating the man who is now my husband, we have left little notes of love for each other. Sometimes we leave a trail… Read More
“Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.” -Scott Adams I’ve got a problem with people being nice to me. I do. Maybe it was how I was raised. Self-sufficiency was the rule, and on those shameful days you had to ask for help you had better dang… Read More
I wrote this some time ago but wanted to bring it back. A few weeks back, on the anniversary of my mother’s death, a woo woo moment occurred at her gravesite. My sister had just visited a psychic. The woman asked who the third child in the family was because Mom had a message for that person. I am the… Read More
