 Dispatches from a woman of a certain age.
By Miriam N. Kotzin |
A Case of Shingles Life as a homeowner is a standoff between you and your roof. Who goes first?
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Worry Lines My young friends were so cheerful and optimistic! Then age caught up with them.
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Winter on the Salt Marsh The sunsets here are like giveaway calendar photography: an almost tawdry display.
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Strip Show Everybody loves trees in spring and fall, but I see something special in winter's stark, bare branches.
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Picture Perfect From Sargent's Madame X to Michelle Obama, capturing powerful women is always a complex task.
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On the Wild Side I wanted to reach the bay, but salt hay and tiny fish and a blue crab got in the way.
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A Seasoned Eye I look for bluets in the spring and monarchs in the fall. There's comfort in such seasonal routines.
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Some Birthday Linda asked who would be the first to go, so I asked where the cat went.
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A Wedding Trip Most people ''attend'' a wedding or a funeral. Sometimes I like to be a bit more remote.
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The Swimsuit Issue Sure, I love summer. But boy do I hate coming up with excuses to avoid the beach!
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Stuff People spend lifetimes quietly amassing proud collections of clocks, beer steins, whatever. They die and those collections get dumped in antique shops.
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She's a Little Runaway I tried to run away from home when I was seven. Many decades later, I wish I could go back and remember why.
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Theater of the Completely Normal Everybody wants to save the local art deco movie house. But nothing can bring back all those Saturday afternoons spent there.
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Ride Far, Ride Long It's not enough to get out of the kitchen and onto a motorcycle. You need to stop riding on back.
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Sugar, Sugar It was a little treat at the bottom of my glass. My mother appreciated sweet endings.
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Bad Call What did we lose when we abandoned land lines? Obscene phone sex perverts, for one.
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A Hair Piece Why not let my hair go gray, I thought. Four years later...
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Dirty Little Secrets I sometimes have to root through the trash. There, I said it!
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| Nights in Black Satin I didn't wear any pants to dinner.
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END...END...END Why does a microwave count down? It just makes cooking dinner a reflection on time's passing.
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Card Snark Misconstrued cards. Flowers that are just going to die. Oh boy, it's Valentine's again.
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A SINKing Feeling Oh. Great. It's the Census. Time for the federal government to remind me I'm single and childless.
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Young Lady Why would anyone call someone my age ''young lady''? Hegemonic masculinity?
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