What’s in a name?

by | Oct 18, 2016 | Uncategorized

One of my friends’ favorite lines in HASHES & BASHES is this – “That girl’s name is Amy, a sequence of names in infamy, which is what she brought to all our lives.” Referencing the conniving ex-daughter-in-law, Amy, who ended STASHES...
A Talent for Refuting Reality

A Talent for Refuting Reality

by | May 11, 2015 | Uncategorized

I am ardent, authentic, and undeniably out-going, a perennially chipper sort, a habit that astonishes people who’ve known me over time. After all, reality bites, doesn’t it? Life episodes hammer at one’s spirit, sending a person to drink or hunker...
Lands’ End

Lands’ End

by | Oct 27, 2014 | Uncategorized

It’s the season: catalogue season. You can tell that the economy is back: back in the saddle, back in the box…back in the use-your-charge-card mode. Nearly 100 catalogues have clogged our mailbox in the past month – yes, I counted. I’m a little...
One-up womanship is a pain in the butt

One-up womanship is a pain in the butt

by | Aug 20, 2014 | Uncategorized

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....
Campaign

Campaign

by | Jul 7, 2014 | Purpose

I have been on a personal campaign, a vigorous solo force to recruit young men and women into the fold of speech-language pathology, the core of a legion of fixers of communication. Yeah, we all know about the role of psychologists and marriage-family-child...