On Tuesday, May 23, 2012, Lulu started a new job. She has had some important jobs before now, but this is her first post-graduate Big Girl job, and she found it all by herself. She is editor and producer for care2.com, “the largest online community for healthy and green living, human rights and animal welfare.” It is a dangerous place to visit, a sea of time-sucking vortexes. I found, for example, a collection of videos […]
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Oneself & Others
Eleni and Emmy spent the night last night. This morning Eleni told me about a dream she’d had, in which “a man self-immolated a woman.” She acknowledged the oxymoronic nature of the statement, and then we went on to elaborate on the idea: He doesn’t give me any self-respect. He self-motivates me. She wrote an autobiography about him. She painted a self-portrait of him. She killed him by auto-asphyxiation. He’s self-conscious of her. She doesn’t […]
Read moreOde to Bun
Mom was at a church-lady meeting at the other day, where the biddies were discussing pros and cons of constructing a new holy building. At the end of much debate, a certain Mrs. R____ [not my mother this time], chimed in. “I say we should grab the bull by the balls and run with it.” No one made a peep in response to this Hemingway. When I talk with Emmy and Eleni on video chat, […]
Read moreMadrugada
You know what’s a pretty word? Madrugada. (It means dawn.) Poor Eleni. Every time we video chat, I give her a cursory greeting and then it’s Where’s Emmy? I want to talk to my baby! The good girl that she is, Eleni produces for the camera one perfect grandchild. I open my mouth as wide as I can. So does Emmy. Emmy wiggles her two index fingers at me, redrum style, and I do the […]
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