Tag: musings
member name: Pina M.
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September 24, 2006 09:25 AM EDT --
Morning has come to my humble life, and today I find myself wistful and reflective from the events of last week, wishing I could start it all over again, fresh and new. I am thinking about the . . .
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October 20, 2006 11:21 AM EDT --
SPENT
I spent the better part of last night contemplating what it was I should write, but I kept coming up empty; my mind drained from a trying workweek that has continued since Saturday, with . . .
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October 21, 2006 10:33 PM EDT --
When I was 18 or 19, I had great plans for my life. I was in college studying abstract painting when this brilliant thought came to my mind one day while I was working in the studio, carefully applying . . .
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November 10, 2006 09:43 PM EST --
PART III
When I first moved back to New York the summer of 1977 and after I had settled into the apartment I shared on 103 street, I was pretty much consumed by two things: finding a job . . .
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October 11, 2006 10:38 PM EDT --
THE DANCER
For Wendy S., on Gather, whose story about a homeless man inspired me to write this.
I was living in Hotel Bretton Hall, an old hotel located on the corners of 86<sup>th</sup> . . .
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October 22, 2006 05:08 PM EDT --
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Before I careened into my marital fantasies, I continued my artistic pursuits, even though some plans I had were discarded in favor of the practicalities . . .
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September 23, 2006 01:50 PM EDT --
I was married for ten long years to a man who was, to say the least, an odd duck - or rather, a seriously troubled odd duck who flapped his wings too much (when not being remote and distant otherwise) and . . .
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February 23, 2008 10:34 PM EST --
CHRONIC ILLNESS AND THE FINE ART OF SAYING "NO"
They say "sorry" is the hardest word for many of us, but for me the word "no" has been my downfall. After . . .
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February 22, 2008 11:41 PM EST --
SICK: LIVING WITH CHRONIC FATIGUE AND FIBROMYALGIA SYNDROME, Part 1
When you first look at me, you wouldn't believe or think that I am sick, just as you wouldn't know I am . . .
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October 24, 2009 03:45 PM EDT --
WHERE I AM FROM, NOW:
SURVIVOR
(This is my first foray into writing about my cancer diagnosis since I finished the last of my treatment modalities in December 2008. Forgive it's . . .
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October 08, 2006 06:25 PM EDT --
Our names signify our origins, our ancestry, and our identity. Our name is the first thing someone will learn about us after we meet, after which conclusions are drawn that may or may not be correct. . . .
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April 11, 2007 04:09 PM EDT --
WRITTEN MARCH 16TH..AN INNER DIALOGUE DURING A BAD MONTH IN AN ALREADY BAD YEAR
Evening has faded into night now as I sit listening to the tinkling sound of ice falling against my home . . .
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November 25, 2006 04:39 PM EST --
Where I am From
I came from love, a second marriage of opposites
A love forged in passion and grace,
Entwined in inner sorrows, revealed when I matured
A gentle, . . .
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March 24, 2008 10:57 PM EDT --
Rumble and Roar
It starts quietly enough
this low sound
a rumble that comes from afar
a distant storm
dark clouds overhead, churning and twisting into monstrous shapes . . .
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September 17, 2006 01:35 PM EDT --
When I was 15 years old my mother told me that I was what she called "a woman's woman" as opposed to being "a man's woman" like my older sister. I wasn't exactly sure . . .
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March 23, 2008 01:18 PM EDT --
ISN'T IT IRONIC?
A Karmic Journey
Of late, my life - such as it is now - is one so filled with the twists and turns of life's irony and Karmic energy I . . .
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December 25, 2006 09:52 PM EST --
Christmas in my home was always weird, or at least that is how I perceived it to be when I was a kid. This isn't to say I didn't have good Christmases, get great presents, eat lovingly prepared . . .
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September 17, 2006 10:17 PM EDT --
I don't like Sundays as much as I don't like snow. You know it is part of the daily theme and cycle of life, and you know that it is coming, but it still is a drag no matter how you slice . . .
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September 18, 2006 10:29 PM EDT --
Yesterday I wrote about the Sunday blues and today I write about Monday's madness... Now, I am in a fine mood and there is no issue here to speak of, but it is just another slice of my life. And so, . . .
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September 17, 2006 04:06 PM EDT --
The summer we sold our house in NYC (1973) my parents shuttled me off to live with my older brother, his wife and baby son on the South Jersey Shore while they stayed in the City and packed. My parents . . .
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