Tea

How is the anxiety disorder? How is the Russian Tea Room? I prefer the Russian Tea Room. It took a glass of wine and a call to my mother to get me into Manhattan. I had successfully passed through lunchtime (for mysterious reasons a great anxiety trigger) and my oh-shit work is over I have nothing […]

Skeletons Warming Themselves

I didn’t know three people who died this week. On Thursday, my meditation group mourned a parishioner who was shot by the police. I never met her. They talked about how okay Ms Danner was when she was okay, how you would never know she was ill. Someone held a piece of her knitting, just as the […]

We May Sink and Settle

Someone told me even numbers of bamboo stalks are unlucky, so I bought another pot with three stalks, bringing my total to 9. I had 3, that was good, then 6, disaster, now back to 9. “What does that have to do with?”my coworker asked. I was carrying my bamboo. “I don’t know,” I said. […]

Sanity

Immediate apology: this is not about going crazy. It’s about getting sane. I know that’s less interesting. But: some people like to read about how sanity can return. Especially the currently insane. If you’re not insane, and think you could never be, or that no tough, clever person could ever go crazy, then you can […]