Cynthia Yockey, A Conservative Lesbian
A Conservative Lesbian
The patty pans squash plant I was checking on yesterday when I saw the goldfinches in the zinnias turned out this afternoon to have a stalk so damaged that I was going to pull it this evening. But before I headed out I had the impulse to check my e-mail and learned that one of …
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I relate to the mother in this personal story because I was my late life partner Margaret’s warrior for over 20 years. But I’m also almost seven years in to the battle to save my own life from hypoxic brain damage due to obstructive sleep apnea — I was in death’s foyer before I was …
Richard Wiseman is a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire in the U.K. who researched how to be lucky and wrote a book about it called The Luck Factor. He published a piece giving highlights of his research findings on Jan. 9, 2003, at the Web site of the British newspaper, the Telegraph: … unlucky …
Dad’s OK, I’m OK, Cuban Diva BFF’s OK, all the cats are OK. But I spent the day working on a post that required me to re-live aspects of caring for Margaret while she was dying. Dear Jennie, The Bloggess, linked this song, “Laughing With,” by Regina Spektor in a tweet awhile back and it …
A few days ago I posted a photo from LOL Cats that had captured my heart because of its unity of joy, silence and motion. I captioned it, “You gots to dance like no one is watchin.” I was thinking of a quote I’d heard at a Realtor seminar and attributed then to Louis Armstrong …
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