Health and the Holidays

Haven’t been here in a while. Recovering from the somber fact that I must take more agency over my health. In doing so, I’ve forgone my daily glass of wine in the last couple weeks (yes, good for the heart. but bad for sinus problems), am avoiding gluten...
To begin again….

To begin again….

To begin again is to intentionally draw a blank. Forget everything, yesterday, all else. In the shadow of new beginnings are always associations with the past. They may stand like towers in the background, but what if these associations could stand with out judgement?...

They’re alive!

Recently a video of a a 90-ish year old woman dancing dancing precisely and energetically to accordion music has been circulating on the internet. You may have seen it too; it deserves to be seen. A powerhouse, this tiny woman. What keeps screaming ‘old...

To Be or Not to Be

Every once in a while, some famous, sexy actor will grab me by the curly short hairs and drag me into a very confusing obsession. My stomach is making butterflies, my tongue cleaves to the roof of my mouth, and I feel racy. On one hand yay, there’s life in the...

A Feminist’s Cheer for Brooklynese

Walking with my husband this morning, a chipper neighbor across the way saluted us with the plural ‘How are yous?’ And suddenly, coming from this very funny and intelligent man, it made perfect grammatical sense. Lumping women in with ‘you...