middle age
October 22, 2009
- We all have icons in life. Icons work as a type of shorthand commemorating momentous events, deeply felt emotions, or a state of mind such as hope or gratitude. Some are handed down by tradition. Others evolve through transformational experiences. And some just happen. So when I am asked how Boston became the icon of my journey to middle age, I answer, “all of the above.”My first trip ...
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June 4, 2009
- On my way home from LaGuardia Airport and an exhiliarating, if exhausting, week in Manhattan, I decided to take the Bay Area Rapid Transit train from the airport in San Francisco to the East Bay instead of the shuttle.
An attractive young woman sat only feet from me in one of the first rows of the train. She was in her late twenties--no more than about 30, brunette, a few extra pounds, wearing ...
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January 30, 2009
- The State Department has added a new group to its watchlist. MARA - the acronym for the Middle Age Resistance Army - issued a communique calling for an "end to youth." Wrapped in an Afghan coat and wearing a T-shirt with a fat David Crosby emblazoned on the front, MARA's leader P. Rostate declared "war on the vileness of youth and its degenerate speed culture." ...
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November 28, 2008
- Midair is a collection of eight short stories by Frank Conroy (Stop-Time) that opens with a tour-de-force, the title story "Midair," and proceeds in fits and starts thereafter. Some sentences and perceptions in this collection are breathtaking, some sentences and perceptions are more or less narrative filler. The fundamental ethos of Conroy's writing--when I say this I include ...
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May 3, 2008
- Love. Biology. Are the two things as diametrically opposed as, say, god and science, or art and industry? Love is spiritual, Mom approved, an end-goal all humans strive for. The biological aspect of love—sex—is carnal, frowned upon except inside society’s constraints, and well, an end-goal all humans strive for. It’s a topic I try to tackle from the female point of view in my third ...
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March 10, 2008
- Turns out, a lot. I grew up in a feminist household in the 1970s and used to think that all humans were basically wired the same way, other than the obvious physical differences. Males were the way they were because they were forced into sports, were given toy guns and trucks to play with, had different expectations set upon them by society. Females were boxed into nurturing roles as children, ...
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