Imagine that instead of going into the local coffee bar and ordering a soy latte, you’d have to say, “I’d like a latte with soybeans processed to resemble a dairy beverage” or “I’d like a coffee foamed with almonds (cashews)(macadamia nuts) pulverized with water to resemble the extract from a cow’s mammaries.”
Continue reading →In the weeks from Thanksgiving to the eve of New Year’s Eve, circumstances have allowed me to watch more movies than usual. Here’s my take on two films about loneliness, fulfillment, self-acceptance and more. See what you think!
Continue reading →Not 2020 or 2021, but it was the holiday season of 2022 that my daughter dubbed “Covid Christmas.” Nothing tragic, just inconvenient. Rapid testing, postponed visits, lots of books, movies and walks.
Continue reading →Lucky to live in California, where the secretary of state’s office called to tell me that my mail-in ballot was on the way, I pondered what I could do to help besides voting. What first came to mind was to share the message I received from Senator Bernie Sanders – a great man who never stops working for you and me.
Continue reading →In my August 9 post, I reviewed the latest book by Loren Niemi. The following excerpts from my 2012 memoir, Poetry, Politics & Passion, parallel portions of his book and fill in a bit more about our political history and friendship. The following paragraphs are found in PP&P’s first section, “My Life in the Peace Movement” pages 25-33. Copies still available!
Continue reading →A Breviary for the Lost is a memoir in poems about a time of personal, spiritual, and psychological upheaval, within circumstances of political and moral challenge. I met Loren when we were both college students and he was a fledgling member of the Christian Brothers, a Catholic religious teaching order. The time we shared most directly was the late 1960s and early 1970s although our friendship endures to this day.
Continue reading →In my last post, I encouraged everyone, single or not, to create an online profile, for the introspection and self-knowledge it could provide. Here I share my coach-approved dating profile, along with a postscript that she didn’t quite approve.
Continue reading →I think anyone—married, partnered or single—can benefit from the exercises I did to “get ready to get ready” to write an online dating profile.
Continue reading →My visceral response to the complimentary session with Dr. W. convinced me that the longing for an intimate partner which I couldn’t seem to shake was legitimate, and that my desire possible to fulfill.
Continue reading →Like all of us, I lived through the fear of catching a deadly virus, the fallout from an economic shutdown, months of social isolation, tension overs masks and vaccinations, and political upheaval I could not have imagined. In January, I decided it was now-or-never. I called the relationship coach I’d met the year before and made an appointment.
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