On the Day Bezos Wed
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Inflation is such that I expect my grocery bills to be double what they were a few years ago, but being charged $15 for a head of cabbage was something I could not let go. Continue reading
Category Archives: A Day in the Life
And If the Shoe Doesn’t Fit?
The human psyche is delicate. Years of self-knowledge, discipline, and hard work are required to achieve some degree of equilibrium, yet it takes so little to disrupt it. Something bonkers happened yesterday that certainly disturbed mine. Continue reading
Little Bo-Peep
Little Bo-Peep was terribly peeved to shoot all her sheep in one go. But she knew there were more in El Salvador. A happy chiquita was she. Continue reading
One Hard-Boiled Egg
Some eggs don’t crack when they fall and don’t require all the king’s horses and all the king’s men to do anything. Continue reading
The Shape of Testosterone
Sue and Sandy had a talk about why they can’t sleep. It had nothing to do with their homes or their families or their jobs or even the price of eggs. It had to do with a football. Continue reading
Equality! Fraternity! Macaroni!
School lunchtime. Anyone remember that? At a signal, scores of children spill out of classrooms into the hallway to storm the lunchroom. But what’s this? At the cafeteria entrance, one girl is coaxed out of line and told to wait outside. But she’ll miss her lunch, she points out. She’s not to get any, she is informed. Continue reading
The Cage Inside
We say birds are free because they can do what we cannot, fly. We put them in cages where we can watch, but they cannot fly. Trapped, they die, dusty, crusty, shabby, lonely, and — what we’ll never know — heartbroken. Our bodies suffer a similar fate. Continue reading
On Heroism and Truth
We don’t cross the street when someone tells us to. We look for ourselves before crossing. While some may see this as egotistic, it has ensured the survival of humankind during its early and most arduous millennia. Some would have us believe such selfish acquisition of personal knowledge is no longer necessary. Continue reading
Nearly Normal Me
“Normal doesn’t exist.”
I glanced at my girlfriend, who was staring defiantly at me, as if aware that she had just shattered my fondest illusion. She was well into her sixties, as was I, and a professional. I assumed she would have learned about “normal” earlier in life. Continue reading
Steam in the Sauna
Maybe it was because the sauna had opened late that day. The sauna attendant could have been a little tense, irritable, not himself. Or perhaps it just took too long to explain the rules of the sauna, especially to someone so blithe about violating them. Continue reading