I can’t resist the carbs. And I’m insulin resistant. Which may account for my hangover this morning, even though my alcohol days are decades behind me. Yup, that’s what my nutritionist says. I eat bread or pasta and my sugar spikes and I get high and then I crash. But the problem is I can’t […]

I said the Lord’s Prayer. One of the great disillusionments of my adulthood is the rejection of sixties values. Oh, you remember the sixties, wherein the younger generation questioned everything “the establishment” stood for and we ended up with women’s rights, abortion and “Sgt. Pepper,” and some people are still pissed about it. “Question authority.” […]

I don’t know who the people in “People” are and I don’t care. I used to, I used to pride myself on being a pop culture expert, but there became so much of it that you couldn’t keep up and then I got so old I realized it wasn’t worth keeping up, that almost nobody […]

I’m a sap. I’ve never owned a black leather jacket, never a skinny tie, I’m nothing if not unfashionable. But I’m human. What does it mean to be human? Anxious. Wondering if this or that is gonna work out. Lonely. Wanting to connect, but not knowing how to bridge the gap. Self-conscious. Worried if people […]