ON THE ADVISABILITY OF SWEARING 0:00 / 0:00 Swearing Recently, after four attempts, a TSA agent failed to collect a non-fuzzy image of my fingerprints. No matter how firmly I pressed and no matter how I positioned my hand, the device would not record my prints crisply. Maybe I should be grateful. My inability to […]
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LIVING FOREVER 0:00 / 0:00 Living Forever My dad died a few years ago. Even though he needed a pacemaker to regulate his heart and he was a brittle, non-compliant diabetic, his death still shocked us. Often, my father would start a sentence, “If I ever die….”–as if the inevitability of his death was nota foregone
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IF I WAS YOU 0:00 / 0:00 If I Was You In my hip hop class, we dance to a Meghan Trainor song whose lyrics are: “If I was you, I would wanna be me, too. I would wanna be me, too.” People perk up during this song. We’re more likely to strut, rather than
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A QUIET PLACEMOVIE REVIEW I do not like horror movies. They scare me. Until recently, I’ve only watched two in my life: The Haunting of Hill Houseand The Sixth Sense. Here is a terrifying clip from The Haunting of Hill House. Don’t watch it. The scariest scene in The Sixth Sense is when kitchen cabinets
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FROG IN HER THROAT 0:00 / 0:00 Frog in Her Throat I used to phone my grandmother every Saturday morning. Although Benedetta died few years ago at age 106, on some Saturday mornings I still wake up ready to dial her number. We’d start out the same way: “How are you, Grandma?” “I’ve got a
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LOCALLY SOURCED PET TO TABLE DINING 0:00 / 0:00 Pet to Table Dining Growing up, I desperately wanted a pet. We lived in a tenement bordered by an asphalt driveway in the back and a concrete sidewalk in the front. Our apartment was so tiny that we needed only a cook stove to heat the
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DON”T GRAB THE STICK 0:00 / 0:00 Don't Grab the Stick Once, as I waited for my husband, Bruce, outside the door of a Trader Joe’s in Manhattan, a blond-haired man walked up and stood uncomfortably close to me, definitely well within my personal space. He looked as if he’d stepped out of a Brooks
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MAGICAL THINKING 0:00 / 0:00 Magical Thinking I am a big fan of magical thinking. The technique has carried me through many a rough patch in life. Recently, I was having a bad day. They say bad events arrive in threes. That day, my bad incidents numbered nine. Nothing truly horrible occurred. However, if I
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TO CHARLOTTESVILLE WITH LOVE One morning, as I drove down a narrow country lane in Charlottesville, I spotted an African-American boy, about eleven, perched on a bike. He sat in the middle of the road, precisely at the center of a blind curve. I thought, If a driver speeds around that curve, the child will
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TEN TIPS FOR WHEN YOU’RE HOME SICK 0:00 / 0:00 Ten Tips For When You're Home Sick When you are sick, don’t watch the nightly news. If you do, in addition to your current illness, you will wind up developing an ulcer. Also, don’t view Stranger Things when you’re feverish. You will regret it, unless
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