the latest posts tagged ‘aging’
a couple trips around the sun
SUMMER 2011 The stoplight at the bottom of the offramp was dead, as were the next two, at the grocery store and the high school. Not flashing red but three blank black eyes. Cars did the stop-and-go, politely taking turns. Record heat and humidity was roasting September. Air-conditioners had sucked all the juice out…
secretary clinton and i have old hair
We may share an attitude too. Oh, and I call her Secretary Clinton or Mrs. Clinton because I think referring to her as “Hillary” (or her husband as “Bill,” or the President as “Barack,” etc.) could be construed to mean we are first-name-basis close friends. She may be my hero, but she is…
Beach Baby, Sand Story
Nikki St.G., my BFF and partner-in-crime through high school, had come from Honolulu with her bitchen bathing suit, so I bought one like it from a surf shop in San Diego, only mine was sky blue with white hibiscus flowers – the fabric wrong-side-out, natch – and white piping on the edges to show…
Coming Clean
It’s an almost-cold morning. Gauzy fog the color of thin milk hangs in the canyons, brightened in the east by a 40-watt fluorescent sun. The elm outside my office has half its leaves, yellow as old newspaper, tattered webs minus spiders, waiting for the first stiff storm to whoosh it all off, sodden, into courtyard…