For reading between the lines with greater comprehension
For my daughter’s birthday I wrote her a song, ending it on a powerful heartfelt line. Time with you is worth missing. My partner said, “Are you sure you mean that?” “Yes,” I insisted, a little surprised that she wondered. With an artful turn of phrase I had captured just what I felt. I miss […]
It feels personal but it isn’t. It’s a new epidemic,, with clear origins in radical if un-noticed changes in the shape of society. Mid-life single women, does any of this feel familiar to you? I used to have a lot more guys looking at me, flattering, flirting with me, and asking me out. Now sometimes […]
My doctor says that tobacco would be a great drug if it weren’t for the way we come to care for it too much. It’s perfect in that it induces the perfect pairing of calm and alertness. A venerable philosophy professor, now long dead said “I can’t imagine how one could do philosophy were it […]
Admit it. You’re an infomaniac. Your life is an orgy of information. Now you’re no info-hussy. You’re discerning. You privilege only certain kinds of information. Still, you have instant access to such a glut you’re bound to find an abundance that suits your lusty tastes. Your computer is brimming with gigabytes of it and the […]
I used to play catch with my eldest son, a most excitable boy with ambitions to be a baseball player. Sometimes he was at the top of his game, but when he wasn’t, frustrations would build and he’d end up apoplectic. I’d call to him from across the field, “You’re learning two separate games. How […]
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