Hold the Elevator!

We have new elevators in our building, albeit unreliable. Just moments ago, we almost became stuck in our new elevator.  Occasionally, the elevator hesitates as if defiantly thinking of what it would like to do, versus what it has been told to do.  I am a rebel.   I understand that thinking, so I smirk and wait.  Other passengers on [...]

How to fry an egg

Some men just don’t leave.  I’m talking about the “bad men.”   The ones who need you.  The ones you can’t leave.  The ones you invite back, in spite of Auntie’s and Becca’s and Mary’s and Journal’s warnings, pleadings, predictions, evidence, and wisdom worthy of iGoogle’s “Yoda Quote of the Day.”  The men you do several rounds with.  The [...]

Dear Becca

Today, I begin again.  I feel as though I’m 83, not 43.  I feel like one of those blow-up characters from the 60s, the bottoms of which were filled with sand…no matter how hard you knock them down, they just pop right back up again.
I guess I must have a lot of sand in my [...]