Tag: My Glamorous Life
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The eye of God
My doctor sends me to Brooklyn for an abdominal aortic aneurysm screening. As instructed, I fast for six hours beforehand. I don’t even brush my teeth, for fear of swallowing toothpaste and screwing up the…
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A morning’s tale
Instead of screaming, I turned on the faucet.
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My Glamorous Life: The Unexpected Samples
If you’ve never fallen gently asleep to jazz ballads, only to sit bolt upright because a horse is shrilly whinnying in your ears, you should try it some time.
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I Remember, Part 1
Her voice, when she spoke to us from the doorway, was strange. I was in 3rd Grade. Our teacher went away for a few minutes, then came back, crying. She was a tough public school…
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Broken Blossoms
“Raising loved children is the only consistent and lasting healing some will know.”
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The Valley of Hidden Sorrows
I have this friend. A mountain of unexpected medical debt buried his family at the start of last year. At the same time, the closing of his business stuck him with six figures of personal…
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satyricon
The cruel and evil cannot be shamed.
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A Tale of Two Pools
One of these worlds is gone, and to the other, we will never return.
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I’m Here
All my life I’ve known I was “creative” and “different.” Only recently have I realized that I’m both neurodivergent and bisexual. In my youth, as I struggled with drugs, alcoholism, depression, and underemployment, it never…
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Walking Through Fear
The mail carrier used to think I was away from home, traveling. Nope, just scared to open the mailbox.
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A thousand tiny pieces
Snow White pushed a stack of ceramic espresso dishes off of the kitchen counter this morning, to see how many of them would smash into a thousand tiny pieces. The answer was most of them.
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What’s your favorite season?
As a child, I loved summer—no school! I could stay indoors all day and read! But summer camp, which I dreaded, ended my romance with that season. Even as an adult, no longer forced “for…
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My Life is a New Yorker Cartoon
“Why are you uncomfortable having a nonbinary cat?” …my teenage daughter demanded as we sat together on the couch.
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In which I am vaccinated
Got vaccinated against COVID-19 today. Stood in line for just over 90 minutes outside a Lower East Side high school that was being used as an immunization pod. There was an old couple in front…
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My Glamorous Life: Sunday Repairs
For about a week, now, my bedroom floor has been torn up due to under-floor flooding created by a malfunctioning window air conditioning unit. The A/C unit began leaking during the summer months when I…