Missed Opportunities

At a recent party we attended I found myself in like next to a gent I had met before, didn’t know his name and he probably didn’t know mine, but he said Hello! I’ve always been kinda….socially inept, worried that I won’t know what to say. I said, what have you been doing, just recently? … Continue reading Missed Opportunities →

This Side of the Grass

As you know my sister is dead. And last week my brother-in-law died. I mean we knew it was happening, but—I’ve experienced this before: it begins to seem like the dying will go on forever. Death always makes a grand entrance, it’s not like anything that preceded it. You can’t help but gasp. it’s one … Continue reading This Side of the Grass →

Centennial

My beloved house is about to turn 100! As might happen with any old lady, she just yesterday presented me with an unforeseen infirmity: a major plumbing issue. It seems nothing is forever, not even cast-iron pipes. This was a major letdown as I had to cancel my Solstice party on Friday. She needs major … Continue reading Centennial →

Welcome to Rising Gorge

….in which I meditate upon the “gag factor”. So—trigger warning: this is gonna get…eww, gross! Lately in Oklahoma, one public school had a “fundraiser” at which students licked peanut butter off of other students’ bare toes. Followed quickly by a fundraiser” at another school, where the event was students licking each others’ armpits. (Before we … Continue reading Welcome to Rising Gorge →

I am happy today!

Thank you, #1 Simonette, so very much na