Category: scribbler

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the edies

I don’t want to think it is, but it is. it’s us. on the inside,…

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mirror rorrim

    There are days I wake up and I don’t recognize the face in…

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hair today

Ma: You’re hair looks good, did you do something?

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curmudgebot

Dear Spambots, I am not Black. Or Christian. Or Dating. So, please, enough with all that….

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can you hear me now?

I’m getting used to seeing her on the north corner of 84th Street and 37th…

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because I don’t want to

what’s the sound of two edies talking? If a boy wants you to do something,…

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“My mother taught me to fight”

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in the beginning, there was my little mommy

My mother was born on Friday the 13th, except it was a Thursday. Don’t bother…

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meteorological foreplay

Keep your sun-drenched days and well-oiled bodies. When the wind rips limbs off trees. Pushes…

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mama loves the broken things

When I was a girl we lived across from a parking lot. On the other…

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spooning mr. pants

Midnight. Spooning with Mr. Crazy Pants.  My back to the window where a gentle early…

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god’s graffiti

Sometimes, when I’m stuck in a never ending line of traffic. When even though I’m…

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funny, you don’t look jewess

I keep getting confused between Rachel Shukert and Jillian Lauren. Both of them have hot…

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the bridal bouqet

It was a lovely wedding in a neighborhood church that welcomes all possibilities of love….

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feeding the beast within

All my life –seriously, all my life, and that is considerable at this point, all…

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dating a shelter dog

I’m a shelter dog at heart. It’s not even well hidden. If you’ve never been…

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lost, then found

I hear dead people. I heard them call my name when no one was there….

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selective memories

I have a bum leg. Actually, it’s a bum foot. A motorcycle accident in  ’79…

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sex and violins, or “I’m not dropping my drawers for Babs”

In case you were wondering, I can be seduced by good music. When the music…

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taking pictures of god

There’s a Sufi poet, Hafiz (the best translations are the ones by Daniel Ladinsky).  Hafiz…

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thirty years later…

I had to take a little time off from the “other” blog, from writing in…

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not so great expectations

I recently found myself trying to talk an Executive team into allowing their employees the…

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we can drive all night, she said

I’m driving and the music is blasting. Frequently. There are certain bands, certain music that…

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funny, you don’t look blu-ish

Last night I had dinner with the Death Doulas. I haven’t talked about this before,…