Walk like a Norwegian

Walk like a Norwegian

Can you overlay the title paraphrase on the Bangles’ hit song? The mesmerizing melody could haunt… If you can’t, here’s help from your friend, Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6tuzHUuuk I’ve been attempting to walk like a...
Simple, simple, simple

Simple, simple, simple

My Boomer friends and I are fuming. It feels better to be fribbly fuss-budget than be-fuddled. Agreed? Our griping may be similar to the Angry White Man diatribes, the male version of snark, about Every Thing that’s Wrong with America. (clue: it’s all the...
A before B and C = see you later

A before B and C = see you later

I scrutinized my look in the mirror. Closely, as I tried to re-create the facial expression at the moment when that woman asked me my age. Though I’d slept on the sensation (the conversation occurred the previous evening), I still fully recalled the internal...
Drought-tolerant

Drought-tolerant

“Please don’t!” I heard myself say and, expeditiously, my guest complied. I couldn’t believe that I was refusing help in the kitchen, to clean up after a dinner party, but I was… She needed to be arrested. Because she was at our kitchen...
Drought-tolerant

Social Life

Our social life has migrated to the middle of the week? Has yours as well? That is, we often get together with friends on Hump Day, though without the camel, thank you very much:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxCVtEeJnZ It seems that all of our local friends are...
Spacey in Macy’s

Spacey in Macy’s

We have to attend two weddings soon. Hadn’t been to one in a few years and, wouldn’t you know it, the gaggle of gowns hanging in the closet don’t fit. Must be that languishing forlornly shrinky-dinks sequins. Satin and polyester, too. Macy’s...