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.
* * *
from my first husband
Agatha [...]

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.’
* * *
My first response: pleasure. I was [...]

mene mene tekel upharsin

wednesday 16 july
Plan C phones with a lousy cold and coughs impressively.
MIMI: Some people will do anything not to have sex.
thursday 17 july
I finally play back all the messages on my landline, something I forget to do, and find one from Plan C from two days ago inquiring after my foot.
He has called twice [...]

part 2 of ‘post from a wedding weekend’

(First read post from a wedding weekend, part 1 , if you haven’t yet.)

the ceremony
4 p.m. Saturday 12 July
It’s a Protestant ceremony, and everything goes beautifully. Plan C looks at his watch at the end and says with satisfaction, ‘Twenty-eight minutes. Perfect. No wedding should last more than half an hour.’
He [...]

dammerung

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.
* * *
(Polly is his cat….)
* * *
A little later:
PLAN C (looking out over the [...]

not a post but a promise of a post

new 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

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), [...]

mr. havisham

Miss 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 [...]

’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

7 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 [...]