Category Archives: Health I like the combination of broccoli and pasta, but the last time I made it for meatless Monday (or maybe it was meatless Sunday, or Thursday) I steamed the broccoli and it was disappointing. This time I decided to roast it, and the results were terrific. This is another of those dishes that doesn’t require […]  I used to swim, but it’s been almost seven months since I visited the pool, and I’m struggling getting back in the water. When I get in bed Sunday nights, I review my schedule for the coming week, and I figure out what mornings I’ll have time to swim before I go to work, and commit […]  When I am at the mall, or a museum and I have to pee I don’t have to think about where I belong, or who I am, or how I am seen by the other people. I wait in line like all the other women, who also need to pee (right now) and step into […]  One of my favorite poems is Elizabeth Bishop’s One Art, a lesson on lost things. For me there have been many things, places and people dropped or misplaced long before I noticed their absence as well as those lost suddenly, leaving rough, tender places that I had to protect. I clearly recall the moment I lost my […]  When I think of being a quitter I think of the painful scene in the movie Eat, Pray, Love when Liz Gilbert’s soon to be ex-husband, mid-divorce negotiations sings a song with only one lyric, “quitter, quitter, quitter” over and over. No one wants to see themselves as a quitter, but sometimes the wise option is to […] |
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