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It’s Lesbian Stick Time! Christmas 2019
Let us all follow the Christmas tradition* of reading The Story of the Lesbian Stick. ~ * Heartfelt atheist blessings to all you people who come here and especially you special ones who have given me so much. xo
Thanksgiving
I went to get a pelvic ultrasound test for my latest round of hypochondria. The radiologist was a small Asian woman with a dour demeanor. “My name Tran,” she said resentfully. We started a test with the thingy on my … Continue reading
Adulteress: Part Three
What is love? Don’t ask me. I can’t define it, but like Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, I know it when I see it. When The Tragedy wrote back that he now wished he had said he loved me, I … Continue reading
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Adulteress: Part Two
I’m not one to look for old friends on Facebook and I usually ignore those fake requests from LinkedIn. I don’t care about my ancestry and I’m not interested in friends from high school because for one thing, I didn’t … Continue reading
Adulteress: Part One
Years ago, when I was married to the wrong man, I fell madly in love with a guy who sold used books. He wasn’t my type, but he had a certain lanky, preppy appeal. We met when I wandered into … Continue reading
Can You Forgive Her?
First he was a cherished baby, then a child, and then a teenager who went off to college. For two years before leaving, he’d been subjected to his mother’s grief over losing his big brother. The teenager was traumatized as … Continue reading
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Aretha, Don’t Go
As far back as I can remember listening to music, Aretha Franklin has been part of my life. She was my first idol. She made me feel like a natural woman at 15. No one ever surpassed her effect on … Continue reading
Happy Birthday To Max
Max loved butter. It started with toast, which turned into Toast Parties, meaning a a large quantity of buttered toast eaten in one sitting. Bread was merely a vehicle for butter, he told us. Then what’s the butter knife? his … Continue reading
This Be Some News For Philip Larkin
Everyone I know and everyone you know can quote the first line of This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin, a poem he wrote in 1971. They fuck you up, your mum and dad. That one line has served as … Continue reading
Spider Bite
I was lying on the couch, talking on the phone to my adopted son Chris. We talked about getting our knuckles tattooed together. He told me that he recently went to the ER when a little red bump on his … Continue reading