a bit of drama with the shrink

Well, just a bit. Not much. But enough to be on my mind.
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He is, as you may have forgotten, RS, Rolly’s shrink, because it was through Rolly that I heard about him. And Rolly found him in the Manhattan Yellow Pages….I [...]

from lovers to friends, reluctantly

Sleeping on the sofa
Sunday 24 August, 5:30 p.m.
His shirt is ‘salmon’-pink, as he calls it; his face is also pink; the pillow-case is light blue, the quilt I’ve thrown over him is a pale mint-green; the living-room sofa is red. That’s the symphony of color before me as I watch Plan C napping. [...]

dating & the obama party

So I signed up on the Obama website for a hear-Obama-accept-the-nomination party next Thursday night. That’s the kind of thing it’s much more fun to view with other people, and all my friends are out of the city or not as interested in politics as I am. The party is around the corner [...]

legacies from the men in my life

And I don’t mean money. I mean culture, understood in the widest sense.
Whatever about the men, intimacy with them put me in touch with a wide variety of microcultures.
I wonder what legacies, if any, they have from me.
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from my first husband
Agatha [...]

mimi the cockeyed optimist

My ‘faithful reader’ PT wrote the following comment to the previous post. I should say that I have absolutely no idea who PT is; I know nothing more about her than she (assuming PT’s gender is as represented) has revealed in her many comments since her first one on June 5, 2007. And [...]

and it came to pass…(part 2)

‘ A KEEPER’ (Saturday 2 August, c. 8:30 pm)
I can’t remember what if anything I said that provoked this comment. During the wedding dinner Plan C, seated on my left, turned to me and said, ‘You could be a keeper.’
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My first response: pleasure. I was [...]

and it came to pass…(part 1)

the sister
‘Have you tried Astroglide?’ I asked.
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Plan C’s sister (PCS) nodded; she had tried it, and Astroglide didn’t work for her.
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I had been talking tête-à-tête with PCS for 90 seconds before the subject of vaginal [...]

‘you’ve got the goods’

I couldn’t decide whether to title this post with a line from Macbeth — ‘if it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well it were done quickly’ — or a line from my very nice wise shrink — ‘You’ve got the goods.’
The line from Shakespeare would apply to what I’m planning to [...]