“All the news that’s fit to print” or It’s not a conspiracy when it’s just shallow stupidity My whole life I have loved reading Time and Newsweek and The Economist magazines. But I have always noticed that while the articles are always imminently readable, and while they sound very intelligent, when they are about aContinue reading “I JOINED ANTIFA in 2017”
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Terry’s Birth
I first figured out that I was pregnant as a married graduate student at UPenn. I of course called the insurance folks so that I could be a responsible expectant mother and take my vitamins and follow the fetus’ development. But guess what: UPenn’s student health didn’t cover maternity care! Because what women between theContinue reading “Terry’s Birth”
Pope Francis is Dead
He died on Easter Monday, how appropriate. I was very sad. I really had liked the man. It seemed to me, from my far-away perch, that he tried very hard to ease us out of our worship of dollar bills and into respecting human life. But he didn’t make it. I’m in Nairobi today andContinue reading “Pope Francis is Dead”
Lamu
Today I crossed the channel from mainland Kenya to the old Swahili Island of Lamu with two young Kenyan men. It was their first time visiting the old Swahili town, though I had been a tourist there twenty years ago. I already had a sunburn from going by boat two days ago to the LamuContinue reading “Lamu”
Welcome to America
I left my Paris apartment on the evening of Dec 7th and went to CDG airport to stay at a hotel and get on the plane early enough to get to London Gatwick airport early the next morning so that I would have time to meet my daughter Sadie and get on our Norse AirContinue reading “Welcome to America”
Ol’ Widder Woman
I am presently on a road trip in the wild west with my lovely adult daughter and yesterday Sadie reminded me of the “ol’ widder woman” we were lucky enough to cross paths with on a previous road trip from her childhood….. In the summer of 1998, we drove from Seattle, Washington to Washington, DCContinue reading “Ol’ Widder Woman”
Spitting pomegranate pits into the Seine.
I am going to a full moon picnic on the Pont des Arts (in the heart of Paris) tonight. An anglophone community organizes it every month to see the moon rise. Usually, it’s either too cold or too late for ‘yours truly’ to drag herself from home, but today I will go out. These get-togethersContinue reading “Spitting pomegranate pits into the Seine.”
How Oxford saved the Lloyds
Mom and Dad met at Reed College in Portland, Oregon when they were both still teenagers. They were married and my sister, Anamaria, was born before Mom turned 18. This was less shocking back in the 1950s but still not a very auspicious start to the Lloyd family life. Mom obediently dropped out of schoolContinue reading “How Oxford saved the Lloyds”
About Time
Is it true that we are just killing time until it kills us? What even is time? Einstein taught us that it truly IS completely relative. But we knew that! Those ten minutes in which you are getting your teeth drilled last a great deal longer than the ten minutes in your bath. Time isContinue reading “About Time”
Meme
She taught me how to play solitaire right from the start. Before I learned how to say the name of the card game she called ‘big casino’ I called it ‘Baked Cresino”. It was a game with adding and subtracting and certainly helped my math skills. The solitaire game she explained to me was alwaysContinue reading “Meme”
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