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The people across the driveway are having a party and I’m not even mad. It’s nice to hear people having fun. I am guessing it’s a Super Bowl party, though it doesn’t sound like everyone is exactly glued to the TV. Reggaetón is playing loud, and right now some folks are singing along. There areContinue reading “When Do the Rest of Us Get to Spike the Ball?”

When is routine good for you, and when is it, you know, routine? Noun versus verb. Positive connotation versus negative. I woke up this morning, clear in the knowledge that I was about to set upon my routine for the day: make coffee; read the Los Angeles Times; attend online church; write my blog; exercise;Continue reading “The Road to Routine”

Phillis Wheatley is a poet who many of us learn about in school. Especially during Black History Month, when select African-American literature is typically trotted out, and then just as summarily, returned to its hiding place for another year. In case you are not familiar with her, Phillis Wheatley was a West African poet (Continue reading “How Long Before We Move On?”

Last night I watched two documentaries: one on Ulysses S. Grant, and another on Tiger Woods. One man attempted to stop the lynching of recently freed people, while the other was fetishized as an African American and then virtually lynched when he did not keep up with the expectations of his White fetishizers. On thisContinue reading “What We’re Still Doing to Black People in this Country: MLK Day 2021”

Things I don’t want to write about today: The attack on the Capitol Fools who take selfies of themselves committing crimes. The Black woman who was attacked in LA during a Trump rally. (Thank God she survived). The selfishness, greed, and complicit silence of the majority of politicians. COVID Selfish, ignorant people who think theContinue reading

I saw many tiny wildflowers on my walk through suburbia today. Were they always there and I just now noticed them? New Year, new awareness sort of thing? Or is something finally coming alive in this world that has been dormant for so long? Is Nature reflecting this impending rejuvenation by blooming small crops ofContinue reading “Flower Power”

Am I getting old? Yes. Everyone is. Every day. (And that is two words, people, unless you are using it as an adjective. Sheesh). Getting old is actually cause for celebration at some points in life: old enough to drive, old enough to drink (something I tapped my foot for throughout high school); old enoughContinue reading “OLD Lang Syne”

I’ve been trying to put my finger, as they say, on exactly what it is I have been missing during the pandemic. What am I really in need of? After all, I have quite wonderful shelter, more than enough food, and — since September — consistent sunshine. But I was sitting in my living roomContinue reading “Sharing is Caring – for Ourselves”

I was thinking this morning about how much space there is in our society for hate — and fear and bigotry and misogyny and racism, among many other things. Why is there so much room, I want to know. Why can’t we inhabit that space with love, and compassion, joy and even humor? How doContinue reading “All Aboard!”

December 7th is Pearl Harbor Day. And my dad’s birthday. A day that will live on in infamy. Pearl Harbor Day, not Dad’s birthday. (But really my dad lives on a bit infamously, too). On this historical day my father had a birthday, lied about his age in order to join the war early, wentContinue reading “In the Midst”