Right between the vagina. A while ago, I had to drive from New York to New Jersey to get blood drawn. It was only 70 miles, but considering the traffic, […]

My little Nico. Every day, all winter long, lost in my head during my four-mile walk, from pretty far away, something would nudge me, I’d look up, and there Nico […]

“And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make.” I saw you. Sitting on the train. In joyous rapture. “No!” Are you fucking kidding […]

I took acid once. It was the summer I turned 15—on the eve of my going away party—thrown by my Ceil Place friends, my “real” family. My family of origin […]

“If you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” Marilyn Monroe said that. At 62 years old, and with tons […]

Death, and my WTF look. My brother Robert lived. The breath you just took in likely contains molecules of the air that he once breathed out. The same is true […]

Finafrigginly. Loss, Covid and betrayal have put me way behind in getting Book 2 in the C’mon Funk Series into the hands of my next editor. It’s taken me 15 […]

  Antifragile. You don’t want to be around when Funk is reading a book—which is like all the time—because that’s all he can talk about. The problem is, his books […]

“Funk, if the world is gonna keep crashing and burning, I’m letting our relationship burn too. Let’s see what ‘Us’ rises from the ashes.” I think my husband swallowed his […]

  Baby Boomers. We were born of parents who survived the Depression, World War II and the enormous cultural shift that occurred going from the 50s to the 60s. Raised […]