Month: December 2007

A Howl a Minute

As if it weren’t bad enough that Stella disemboweled that Christmas ornament yesterday — in my bare feet I stepped on a small, painful object that turned out to be the hand of an angel — she’s come up with a new little trick. Under cover of darkness she tip-paws over to the tree, carefully selects a present, picks it up with her fine black lips, and carries it to the middle of the rug […]

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La Llorona

I wonder how many raisins I have to eat to get my iron levels back to normal. Here’s a program I produced about twenty years ago. La Llorona — the crying woman — is the Mexican equivalent of the bogeyman in the US: a great story and an effective behavior modification tool. The show aired on NPR’s All Things Considered. I suspect that listeners wondered about the mental stability of the producer. In fact, I […]

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