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Geezer Rock
We are devotees of Geezer Rock: we can't help it that we're 'older'. Our concerts are fewer and far between, the venues smaller and less grandiose: we can't help it, the rock we prefer is 'older'. Close-up seats are no longer vital, because the aging artists' faces...
One-up womanship is a pain in the butt
Yesterday I met Predatory Pam for tea-and-me-and-thee. I hoped for mutual benefit. When I arrived, in an area not in my 'hood, she was posed in front of the coffee shop window, as if ensconced on a throne, well perched and poised, ready to - Strike. Me. Out. Her nose...
Woodstock Nation: taking personal stock
How would you have liked to awaken to the "Star Spangled Banner," rendered on guitar by a black guitarist, one who invented a new way to work the strings with his overlong thumb? One who famously set his guitar on fire, actually as well as metaphorically. If you were...
Benefits of a Book
For three years I've been writing a book, a novel activity for me - I highly recommend it. The title, STASHES, came from the Lord above, I swear. It just infused, floated into mind, with narrative arcs imagined, bit by bit over time. The prompts and...
The Great Walk
I carry in my wallet a picture of a heart: a schematic of my dad's blockages and remedy shunts. On the back, listed in his own hand, are the dates of his pacemaker operations. It's a small plastic-coated card, meant as medic alert, the size of Master Card and its...
Feeling Tready
Are you aqua-fit or aqua-fat? I don't have to choose: I am both. You see, my mindful fitness routine includes water aerobics. I've just attended my 100th class. Feeling tready, I am. However, my unmindful imbibing infuses its own routine: each week I lose three pounds...
Holy Crap!
Words and music
U2! We attended a U2 tribute band concert yesterday: note-for-note, phrase-for-phrase exuberance. I recovered the muse. Music does that to me. You, too? Rock music unleashes the laces that bind us to commoners' propriety, routine, and decorum. To rules embedded in...
Natural Glow
All of us desire a natural glow - even if it comes in a tube. Just as many people grant their desire to be a blonde by pouring the genie from a bottle. While I don't need the bottle, I definitely need the tube. Yeah for Jergen's Company scientists who perfected a...
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