CHOP WOOD,CARRY WATER “Do you like to cook?” I asked one of my writingclients a couple of months ago. “No,” she said. “The last time I cooked was in1975.” That didn’t seem to bother her a bit. But it bothers me that I don’t enjoy the dicing and chopping it takes...
HOW CATS HEAL I was relaxing in bed a few evenings ago, watching a mindless TV series, when I heard a thundering bang. It sounded like a metal statue or a huge book case had fallen just outside my bedroom door. My cat, Star, let out a terrible cry and I jumped up see...
Leave Yourself Alone At the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the nineteen eighties, I received a card from death and dyingadvocate, Ondrea Levine. On the front, it says, “Treasure Yourself.” Inside it says, “Love is the optimum strategy for healing.” I know this, I’ve...
THE LIFE OF INANIMATE OBJECTS When the Covid pandemic struck and we were directed to shelter in place, after the initial shock wore off and I accepted the fact that I was going to be alone in my house for an extended period of time, I started organizing piles of...
Write Me A Poem I was scanning a bookshelf in my house, deciding what tokeep and what to give away, when I spotted three diaries tucked between a pair of deco bronze bookends of nude women reading. The diaries were old, the bindings were shredded and the Chinese brush...
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