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THE PORTUGUESE PARTY

THE PORTUGUESE PARTY My entire life- the part when I started to remember- like four or five-was spent surrounded by Portuguese people. Men and wome...

IN A WORD

IN A WORD 44.00, the Ebay auction item said as I perused my watch list. No bidders until the last four or five hours. She was a standard run of the...

THE BUS

THE BUS Gently at first, (but or and), then with some purposeful vigor, my Birkenstock covered foot pumped the brake like an adolescent boy having ...

GET YOUR LED OUT

GET YOUR LED OUT Somehow, when I was in my early marriage days, my husband at the time, his parents, his sister and her boyfriend coordinated a ...

DEAR OLD GAL

DEAR OLD GAL The timing couldn’t be better for my new obsession. Yes, I have another one. In the early part of my years, when I was in my teens, no...

GET THAT MAMMOGRAM

GET THAT MAMMOGRAM “Look at that arm flexibility,” Kathy exclaimed in my workout class today. (Dear reader, note the absence of the much used excla...

THE AGREEMENT BOX

THE AGREEMENT BOX Updates ready to install, my computer said to me like it does every single day in the upper right hand corner of my tiny scree...

WRITING CLASS

I am taking a six week writing class with the theme of Memoir Writing. There are about twelve incredible writers in the class and we are all feedin...

LIKE A WEDDING

LIKE A WEDDING I got home the night before the parade at 10:30 pm after watching the Bristol fireworks, way past my bedtime by the way, with the pr...

INTO THE VORTEX

INTO THE VORTEX Fifteen chicks, at least twelve bottles of wine and two large pizzas from Leos later, we had a great party outside on the sidewalk ...

NO BACKGROUND NOISE

NO BACKGROUND NOISE I am having so much fun, I thought to myself as I discovered yesterday that I have lived my fifty three years of life not ever ...

MOVING AND SHAKING

MOVING AND SHAKING “Does anybody really know what time it is?” The tune of that fabulous and very danceable Chicago song started randomly playin...