Today someone said to me, “We just need one more big snow to get to a real catharsis, to really hit rock bottom,” and I did not slap this person, which goes to show what self-restraint I can exhibit. Something beautiful (a poem by cummings I once read to my university classmates and someone told […]

Hello from the Atlanta airport.  My flight has been delayed two and one half hours. We are still going to be all right. I paid a nice lady to massage my shoulders. I got a latte.  I am pretending I am “having coffee,” sacred ritual of coffee and reading and writing.  They have a stool […]

Funerals done (we did two in two locations), I am hoping March is kinder to me than February was. I always hate February, this February challenged me in unusual ways.  More intensely bad, also more intensely sweet. You think I like intensity, I do, still, it was a lot for even me.  Flying across half […]