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When The Lettuce Turns
There’s an Italian expression my grandmother liked, when lettuce ceases to be edible…fachadda…meaning, the leaves are dead, shriveled…salad history, if you will. I had a week that left me, let’s just say, fachadda, in every area. It began with a job…a good … Continue reading
Posted in Beauty, grace, Health, humanity, modeling, women
Tagged cancer drugs, crazy women, having cancer, women of a certain age
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Trash Talk’in
Yesterday, I was about to begin my run, when I saw a bevy of beer bottles rolling beneath a bench. I love Central Park and loathe littering anywhere, so often find myself, like this morning, picking it up. As I … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Health, humanity, humor, money, New York City, women
Tagged Central Park, iPhone 7, littering, The entitled rich, The Upper Eastside
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Remembering Jackie
It was May, 1994, when I was coming home through Central Park, wondering why there were so many news trucks along Fifth Avenue. I had yet to learn, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, better known to the world, as just Jackie, had … Continue reading
Posted in Beauty, Books, Family, Fashion, grace, Health, History, Home, humanity, media, Politics, words
Tagged Dallas November 1963, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, remembering Jackie
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They Died With Their Scrubs On
I go to the hospital monthly, to have a shot to keep my hearing up, in a facility called, The Infusion Center. Now I’m there for something minor, compared to the cast of chemo patients that never fail to humble … Continue reading
Posted in Connecticut, Family, grace, Health, humanity, humor, New York City, words
Tagged cancer patients, Chemotherepy, love and compassion, steroids, things I learned from my mother
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Heart Double-parked
I’m crossing Park Avenue, an elderly man on a walker is approaching the opposite way, losing his balance, falling on the esplanade. In his 80s, extremely tall…imagine Gulliver taking a spill. I run over, along with a young man holding … Continue reading
Posted in friendship, grace, Health, humanity, New York City
Tagged helping the elderly, New York City cab drivers, random acts of kindness
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Crowned
I was hoping more for a tiara, but instead, got one in porcelain that sadly, no one will see… all because I was chomping on cheap candy…sigh I love to lie in bed in cozy jammies, with Jelly Beans, Chuckles, … Continue reading
Posted in Beauty, Books, Connecticut, Family, Health, humor, money, New York City, parents
Tagged dental health, George Washinton's teeth, growing up in Connecticut, replacing a crown
22 Comments
Run For Your Life
There’s a middle-aged man living in my building who suffers from acute panic attacks. Bald, a little hunched over, we literally run into each on the stairs. Despite an elevator, I make myself take them since for forty years, lived … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, friendship, Health, humanity, humor, New York City
Tagged a healthy heart, Love Thy Neighbor, New York City doormen, panic attacks
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Grace of a Lady
I was walking home along Park, when I notice a frail, black woman leaning against the building of a doctor’s office, her hands gripped tightly around her walker. In her 80s, obviously cold, and boy, was it that. Last I … Continue reading
Posted in Health, humanity, Love, New York City, women
Tagged Medicare, pride, random acts of kindness, the elderly
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Bill Hicks…23 Years Ago Today
I wasn’t going to write about Bill this round, feeling a little uncomfortable after someone I like a lot, questioned our relationship, and what I’ve chosen to reveal. But then it didn’t feel right to let the day pass without … Continue reading
