HUFFPOST PERSONAL “I THOUGHT STEPPING IN A BAD LUCK SPOT….”
“He's familiar with the repercussions of his work. He has received hate mail and death threats. He's been attacked on the street and had the police called on him."
NEWSDAY “A GUIDE TO HOLIDAY OFFICE GIFT GIVING”
“Holiday gifts at the office can get out of control faster than the staffer at the holiday part after too many eggnogs.”
DRUNK MONKEYS “Duplicitous Ridiculous Mouth of Wine: A 5pt Account”
DRMW.1: When pouring a medium red I take the smallest sip, two eye drops worth or so, if necessary to measure. I let it slip passed the glass to touch my inner lips, kiss the subtle canals beneath my tongue, then the barrel of my mouth, finding the cavernous place of the previous tonsils before dismemberment.
As years and boyfriends passed, I never developed the need for children that my sisters and female friends had. Women would tell me it will come, or it may come. One minute you won’t have it and the next every fiber of your being will want to be a mother. Didn’t come.
Lilly explains her father’s life had been kidnapped. Sacrificed, slowly, for the cash cow underbelly of the legal system. His bank accounts have been drained. Property for sale. Her bank account is near zero as she spends the only dollars left fighting for her dad against his conservator and legal guardian…
“Do you think we’ll remember this moment forever?” I said to my sister Aja, two years my junior, as we sat on her twin bed perched at the windowsill waiting to spot something fascinating on the dark dead-end street of our NJ split level.
When I finally entered the makeshift market, I was inundated with trinkets and chachkas, clothing from outerwear to underwear, paperback and hardcover books including both Christian titles and “The Joy of Sex.”
It’s 5 o’clock on a Saturday and the regular crowd is in the parking lot of Time Out Sports Cafe in Hicksville, Long Island. There’s an old man in the car next to me waiting for his Blue Point to-go. I ordered a drink I called social distancing and Michele brought two. This is great I thought! Now I don’t have to drink it alone.