Monthly Archives: February 2017

Predicting iffy weather at both ends of my short flight, I took those words to heart at first. Complaining to my patient friends, and strategizing how to not depart right then, I amped myself impressively. But tickets non-refundable have heft … Continue reading →

My life is sometimes comfortable these days. At 66 I’ve finally outgrown anxiety and nerves that used to craze my self-esteem and make my timber moan. Perhaps the thing I needed all these years was leisure time without attendant guilt, … Continue reading →

At least ten years ago I heard it: If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there. I memorized that whiff of wisdom, locked it in like magic code, for it’s too good to lose. I … Continue reading →

The president is crazy, most insist, but is the case insanity or more a cognitive condition so far missed by shrinks and teachers? Here’s DSM 4, and now its superseder – version 5. So we know demagogues and narcissists, but … Continue reading →

Admittedly my mother’s quick to see the problem with whatever’s in her view. She schooled me from my infancy to be expressly judge and jury. “Loving you, I feel I have the right to let you know the ways you … Continue reading →

There isn’t much to dream about, when young. A baby doesn’t have a point of view with depth perspective, and the infant tongue’s unused to frame. A child has too few thematic memories to build a plot sufficiently complex to … Continue reading →