Definition of a Gig: A job that is temporary or has an uncertain future First, a disclaimer. This is my view though one shared by many of my fellow Grandmothers. It is not, God knows, a widely acknowledged, admitted or maybe even, true for the masses view. So, there...
For want of a better description, I’m going to call this my cautionary rant on plastic surgery insanity; these are all true stories (even as a novelist, I couldn’t make this stuff up). I offer four tales from the dark side. Recently in the city of Shanghai a contest...
Personal essays. Mrs. Murphy’s sixth grade English class, Hawthorne elementary school, the un-slums of Beverly Hills, l955ish. The zenith of the personal essay period. I twitch at the thought of it. Mrs. Murphy, the Mount Rushmore wanna be. A thick, heavy, bovine...
My husband is addicted to documentaries. His main obsession is with various fairly revolting creatures (spiders, snakes, insects) mating and murdering one another or sharks and other predators of land and sea, doing the same. This is not my thing, but every now and...
April 7th was the forty-first anniversary of my mother’s death. Grief cracked right through me like some sort of trick, soon to arrive Easter egg, I thought was hard-boiled but had eluded the process. Forty-one years and all that oozing loss still in there. A...
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