on the plane
Monday 23 June, about 10:30 pm eastern daylight time, somewhere over the Atlantic.
PLAN C (breaking a long silence): I wonder what Polly’s doing right now.
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(Polly is his cat….)
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A little later:
PLAN C (looking out over the [...]
Archive for June, 2008
dammerung
June 30, 2008not a post but a promise of a post
June 28, 2008new post coming monday….plan c will be golfing then, weather permitting, so i’ll have time to post.
no change in the romantic situation — it’s ambiguous, uncertain, and as yet undiscussed — but i’m having a fantastic time, as i always do over here, and am happy. (plan c is also enjoying himself — it’s [...]
Practicing on my thumb and other thoughts of an almost-single sexagenarian woman
June 23, 2008friday june 20th 11:45 a.m.
I’m at Cornelia, the midtown spa to which Plan C gave me a gift certificate, the polish on my toenails drying after a pedicure.
Tears are rolling down my cheeks.
Why?
The music playing is “Let’s fall in love” (Harold Arlen) followed by “They can’t take that away from me” (Gershwin), [...]
“i’m reviewing the situation” (thinking aloud, online)
June 20, 2008Fagin sings that in Oliver.
In a different context I, too, am ‘reviewing the situation.’
I have to remember what RS [Rolly's shrink, and mine] said Tuesday: I don’t want to see your heart broken prematurely by a man who may not break your heart in the end.
And he also advised Festina lente, make haste slowly.
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mr. havisham
June 18, 2008Miss Havisham in Dickens’s Great Expectations: still in her wedding dress, still standing by the wedding cake, emotionally frozen at the moment when her bridegroom deserted her decades earlier; now with grey hair, with mice running round the decayed cake, spiders spinning webs unchecked in the dark, candle-lit room, the table still set for the [...]
grim june anniversaries of a woman with a past (a growing past)
June 18, 2008June, June, a month of days I want to forget:
1942
June 1 — my mother marries my father, from whom she has been divorced for 59 years. Since my birth, he has denied my existence and ignored me almost entirely.
1970
June 20th — anniversary of my first marriage
1981
June 14th — I meet my [...]
sunday in manhattan with mimi
June 16, 2008 7:30 a.m.
PLAN C: This morning is for you.
MIMI: Okay.
(Neither of us gets up.)
PLAN C: I want you to have fun this morning.
MIMI: Then it’s time for serious tooth-brushing and minor ablutions.
(Neither of us gets up.)
PLAN C (counting, so we’ll get up): One, two, three!
(Neither of us gets up.)
PLAN C: [...]
a scare & a lovers’ quarrel
June 9, 2008Here’s how it began:
WEDNESDAY 4 JUNE
WordPress lists all the phrases people googled that land them at my blog.
Often, one of those phrases is that most cruelly ambiguous of date-goodbyes, “I’ll call you”, or its brother-phrase “I’ll be in touch,” about which I have a post. A lot of people – mostly women, [...]
’sex and the city’: the ultimate post-modern live-blogged hypertext review of the film and its audience, by a middle-aged dater who saw it with her 66-yr-old internet-met boyfriend
June 2, 20087 p.m. friday 30 may. we are there to be seen
Of course we are there to be seen; why else would Plan C and I set foot out of doors? Why else does anyone ever go out? And when you’re going to an AMC multiplex an hour from Manhattan, you know the [...]
