luck is a penny

more perfect

At the risk of sounding blind and arrogant towards my own good fortune, I’m fed up. This new height of frustration ballooned last week...

winging it

Sage and beloved friend Lindsay says, “I realize we are all just winging it.” Yes. So why do I feel so heavy? Maybe I’m dragging it...

hot spot

Through North Carolina summers, our dog Lizzie became like a baboon. A West Highland White Terrier, one flea could turn her inside out. ...

cavity

I have soft teeth. Root canals, an extraction, cavities; I've had everything done to my teeth. When I was very young, I had dental...

i got this

Today was my first time in Griffith Park in months. It is – as ever – a monument to wildness in the city of angels. Not one but two...

slight of hand

My sister Katie says her daughter Lily has my hands. I wish I had Lily’s features, which is to say, I wish I had Katie’s. Mother and...

cost

For everything you have missed, You have gained something else and for everything you gain, you lose something else. - Ralph Waldo...

romance

The manufacturing company that makes our trashcan is called Simple Human. Isn’t that romantic? We invented trash; the credit is ours. ...

let it be

I keep seeing feathers on the ground. Am I molting? And a couple of weeks ago I saw a shimmery snake skin lying on the ground. It...

i'm great

Great-ing. Grating. I’m not sure what great means. It’s a stock-character of language; someone you’ve met a bunch of times and still...

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