10/13/2018 – Aging in the City

Saturday errands included a dreaded trip at peak hours to Whole Foods, the only supermarket within a 10 block radius of my apartment in super trendy Nolita. While waiting for the number in my color line to be called, I saw only one elderly person […]

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11/25/2018 – Holiday Hate

Now that Thanksgiving is over we’re about 1/3 of the way into holiday season. Call me Scrooge but I just do not like the holidays. People who know me know that I start lamenting about this time of year right after 4th of July when, […]

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Eulogy for a Reptile

Yesterday was one of those golden October days with perfect temperature and blue skies, leaves on trees and vines just starting to turn color. I was driving along back roads in central Massachusetts and whenever I passed sunlit meadows all I could think about were […]

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Letting Go: 2017

  Now that this year is coming to a close I feel compelled to reflect on the wild ride of emotions, experiences and newfound wisdom that was my 2017. The skewed values of a rat race are hard to let go but I learned this […]

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The Sizzler

The sizzler was a short lived look that was popular around 1972. I don’t know the origin of the name but it was a very short dress, often made of slinky polyester, with puffy sleeves and matching bloomers to wear underneath. They were also very […]

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Meat Eater

I guess you could say my first sales job was selling weed. I was living on the Lower East Side in 1984 and my day job was working as the social secretary to the Japanese Ambassador to the United Nations. Life was dull and I […]

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