Gettysburg
It was only when we drew up alongside the sloping, green fields that I realized where we were. A cloud of suffering still wafts up from the terrain. You can sense the concert and collision of wills, t...
3 Kesä 20227min
Blue Jeans
I may be wrong, but it’s my sincere belief that I was the first woman north of Greenwich Village to put on blue jeans for daily wear in Manhattan. At least, when I began the practice, it was not a com...
1 Kesä 20227min
Intimacy
A few months ago, a malicious third party made a comment about my mother, whom she had never actually known, that created distance between my mother and me. It was a puzzling, obscuring distance my mo...
27 Touko 20226min
Keeping Promises
As a little girl, one of my vivid memories of being caught in the wrong belongs to the gift a camp counselor once gave me. This gift-giving happened the last day of the season of the Day Camp that som...
25 Touko 20227min
Chronology
From precognitive dreams, where the future is recognizably predicted before it happens, we can infer that time is other than what ordinarily we think it is.
20 Touko 20229min
The Comparative Lightness of Being
Except for the dentistry, this old world seems to be going from bad to worse. It’s been downhill for decades. Neighborhoods going to hell. Small businesses and specialty shops closing. Anti-Semitism a...
18 Touko 20228min
Seizing the Narrative
Long ago, I waited in New York City for a promised letter from Paris that never came. My first love, not a good correspondent, nor a good keeper of promises, was a communist. Not a party member, but a...
13 Touko 202210min
A Woman’s Standing
What is standing, for a woman, and what is to be done about it?It’s a sign, ladies, of something we all know about: the unfairness of life.
11 Touko 20227min
