In going through another purge/organization of my home, I found this photo. I have no idea who this woman is. I do know the photo was taken in Kansas City, Missouri, around 1900. I've seen her face in a few other pictures but there's nothing written … [Read more...]
MY FUR CHILD
This is the photo I see every time I turn on my computer: my beloved, darling Tucker. We found each other in December 2006 at the Guilford County (NC) Animal Shelter. Sometimes when he meows he sounds like a pigeon and when he snores it's like an elf … [Read more...]
HOLIDAY REMINISCENCES AND REGRETS
An adapted excerpt from the chapter “Watching a Photograph Slowly Fade” from When I Married My Mother “Are we putting up a Christmas tree this year?” Mama Jo asked when our third Thanksgiving as roommates rolled around. I groaned and was sorry I … [Read more...]
My Spinal Fusion Saga (with a happy ending).
After viewing an MRI of my lower back, I prayed New York neurosurgeon Dr. Ezriel Kornel wouldn't utter the dreaded word “surgery.” He said, “You have a cyst in the ligaments around your L4 that has to come out.” I visualized a laparoscopic number … [Read more...]
BETWEEN THE COVERS WITH JOHN WATERS
I've just finished John Water's latest funhouse of memories and musings, Role Models. There's a spray of pink slips of paper sprouting from the top of it now - markers of captivating passages. I know, I know. With an e-reader you can highlight, … [Read more...]
QUICKIE Q&A: SONYA SONES
@SonyaSones California writer, photographer, bicycler, dancer, author of THE HUNCHBACK OF NEIMAN MARCUS and WHAT MY MOTHER DOESN'T KNOW, a Top Ten Most Banned Book of The Decade! http://www.sonyasones.com There's so much to say about … [Read more...]
QUICKIE Q&A: SHARYN WOLF
Sharyn Wolf is the author of Love Shrinks: a memoir of a marriage counselor’s divorce - a fearless look at her own dysfunctional former marriage. A New York licensed psychotherapist and relationship expert, she’s been on over 400 radio and TV shows … [Read more...]
MY FANTASY FINAL ROSE
Summer 2011 As another Bachelorette nears its “most dramatic final rose ceremony ever” I find myself thinking back to the Bachelor debut in 2002. Twenty-five beautiful young women vied for the heart of one alpha male. Many weeks later, he whittled … [Read more...]
THE BOOKUP
Promoting "long-form reading in a short-form world" the Triad was abuzz about its first BookUP (thanks to TV, radio, newspaper, twitter and facebook). Anyone was invited to show up at Bin 33 restaurant in downtown Greensboro with a book (or e-reader) … [Read more...]
JUST FRIENDS
In the movie When Harry Met Sally, Billy Crystal’s character makes a passionate case that a man can’t be friends with a woman because he’s always thinking about having sex with her. In 2003, when I became friends with Ted, a transplanted Yankee radio … [Read more...]