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 [...]

Practicing on my thumb and other thoughts of an almost-single sexagenarian woman

friday 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), [...]

end of a romance: an interview

SO MIMI –
Yeeesssssssssss??
HOW ARE YOU DOING?
So well that I’m mystified. Why am I relieved that I don’t have to see Performer again, that it’s all over, when a week ago today I would have said I loved him? Dating Trooper (in a comment to the previous post) asked me why I felt [...]