Should i stay or should i go now, should i stay or should i go now…if i go there will be trouble … if i stay there will be double…so c’mon and let me know … … … should i STAY or should i GO? – The Clash STAY! like a well trained dog, I …
Category: Aging & Dying
My heart is with the starfish
This is a hard post to write. The starfish are dying. Don’t panic: it is true. The starfish are dying, right here on pristine Cortes Island. They shrivel and wither, their arms fall off, and then they are dead. They do not leave behind pretty exoskeletons to pick up on the beach and take home …
Hot hot hot!
My themostat is completely on the fritz. I honestly have no idea any more if it is hot or cold, or just my hormones messing with me again. I sleep with a bath towel and an extra blanket by my bed. I keep the window open so the dry desert night air cools the room. …
No muss no fuss
Bzzzzzzzzzzzz…gone! Years of old memories, a tangled mass of chemically tormented dead cellulose, a dry pile of old me, fallen to the bathroom floor and carried out with the trash. My head, my body, my spirit feel lighter. Passing a mirror i catch the sun glowing through my backlit ears. What hair is left is …
Carmen goes dancing
I went to my first rave in the mid-’90s and remembered that i can dance. That i had always danced, that dancing was in me, as it is in every toddler and each child in the womb. I realized that dancing had never left me, and never will. Even when i can no longer walk …