Category Archives: Health

Three weeks ago I caught a heavy cold, or maybe it was flu infecting me, but I was stricken then with manifold complaints, among them loss of energy and aching joints, bronchitis threatening, and lack of appetite. All pleasures off, … Continue reading →

I must be ill – I lack the energy to exercise, the stamina to eat. I’m guessing it’s a virus – remedy cannot be bought – I sit, I use the heat and rest until invasion runs its course – … Continue reading →

Eleven years of age: false modesty erupts; beginning sarcasm appears. “Because I’m dumb,” my daughter says to me, when I interrogate her. Leaking tears from gruff frustration, with a tweener flounce of head, she’s that embarrassed to be wrong. “I’m … Continue reading →

Perhaps our spinning wheel was alcohol. Our parents had a cocktail many nights, and wine was shared on holidays, with all of us imbibing sips amid the lights of candles and the mammoth-plattered foods. But no one told us drunks … Continue reading →

I took up smoking 50 years ago. A little pot in high school started me. Progressing to tobacco, deep and slow as if it were the same commodity, I purchased Winstons through my college years, and switched to Players when … Continue reading →

I tried to take your mental pulse, and found I couldn’t count a rhythm, couldn’t tell if you were swamped by politics, half-drowned by pessimism, or surpassing well in spite of recent news (which you don’t read or watch or … Continue reading →

For months I’ve had an irritated soul, and anger drove my mornings many years. Although I liked myself and had control of more than most, and less provoked my tears, my dog reacted like her name was Fuck – she … Continue reading →