To express my heartfelt gratitude for old white men, let me look no further than my own sweet father. He is 73, which I suppose makes him old-ish by young people standards. My dad is, hands down, one of my favorite people in the whole world. He is quite traditional in many ways, one might even go so […]
Category Archives: friendship
Watching Madonna’s Superbowl half-time spectacle earlier this year, I couldn’t help but feel like a voyeur. I wasn’t watching so much for the entertainment as I was to check in on her aging process. Even when I don’t care much about her music, Madonna is always fun to watch. So when I was invited to go to the Madonna concert on October […]
I just read a post on a blog I follow, elroyjones. At the end of this brief but insightful post, which was on the subject of Vanessa Williams and her Penthouse scandal, the author stated “The world could use a little more honesty and a lot less shame.” In honor of this sentiment, I would like to briefly discuss […]
Reblogged from Ki McGraw: The indomitable spirit of Ms. Ki McGraw was in full effect both this morning and this evening in the waning hours leading up to the destruction of the lovely old Hatha Yoga Center building. This morning I arrived for the last class ever to be held in the old building. In my usual last minute rush, I stopped dead in my tracks as I […]
Last weekend I spent a few hours at a Korean spa near Seattle with Shannon, one of my best friends from childhood, who was visiting for the weekend. Women (no men allowed!) pay an entrance fee to lounge in pools of water of varying temperatures, and to hang out in small rooms which contain certain minerals or substances said to […]
In the early seventies my family moved into our first house, a comfortable three bedroom ranch-style house on a quiet street where I would live for the rest of my childhood with my parents and my younger sister Julia. Living next door was a girl named Faith, who was at least a year older than me, but exponentially wiser. We […]
“I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren’t any rules, how could you break them?” Leo Durocher (American Baseball Player, 1905-1991) Last weekend I was involved in a conversation with a close girlfriend and my boyfriend on the subject of our individual inclinations towards following rules. It was duly noted by my girlfriend that I […]
To my blogging friends, do you ever write something for your blog and then ask yourself, “What’s the point of this anyway? Why would anyone really care? Why even bother to BLOG?“. Sometimes the piece I’m writing gets so long and complicated, and I play with the words so much that the whole thing becomes […]
I have now published seven blog posts. Seven little essays I wrote all by myself. I did not show them to anyone, nor ask anyone’s permission before clicking the “publish” button. As I am writing them, it feels like a bubble of words and emotions is welling up in me. Clicking that button is like popping the bubble as it reaches the surface. It […]
In 1978 when I was twelve, my classmate and friend Ann Ellinwood was abducted in broad daylight as she took part in the March of Dimes Walk-a-Thon in Corvallis, Oregon, and was never seen again. The details of this horrific crime were never revealed, though enough evidence was found to name a suspect. The alleged murderer committed suicide the day he was to appear […]
