The Jacuzzi Coffee Klatch

The Jacuzzi Coffee Klatch

I exercise daily. Though I shop on Saturdays and rest on Sunday, on weekdays I’m dedicated to a regimen of treadmill, then weights, and water aerobics in my local gym’s pool. It helps to offset the weight gain that seems inevitable for writers and women of...
Poolology and Social Permission

Poolology and Social Permission

It’s well-known that men and women differ: biology, psychology, sociology… On and on the divergences show – and flow. Even in our sports club’s pool, where I observe all. Especially there, when-and-where my limbs are occupied. There are three...
Covert War: pool vs. plants

Covert War: pool vs. plants

We’ve just returned from a near-week away. It was good to return home – to our much-beloved house. You see, I can not help but worry a bit. California has been under drought siege for a longer period of time than any of us residents recall. Most of the...
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...