Saturday, March 5, 2005HOW REAL IS REAL?One of the first gifts RG ever gave me was a book by Paul Watzlawick called HOW REAL IS REAL? It was the trigger that changed the way I though about myself and my place in the world. RG and I have traveled a long way since then, sometimes separated by thousands of miles and for years at a time but... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 9:40 AM Comments (16) (link) Tuesday, March 1, 2005THE GATES OF SOMERVILLEWhen it comes to Arts and Culture Boston has always had an inferiority complex compared to New York. As a young art student at Boston University I saw all the best graduates, the students who you knew were "Artists" or aching to be wanna be artists, as soon as they graduated, packed up their brushes... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 5:25 AM Comments (13) (link) Thursday, February 24, 2005WHERE THERE'S SMOKE...I woke up coughing. An acrid smell hung in our bedroom air. RG said it had gotten pretty bad. He said I had coughed a lot during the night. I didn't remember. I was pretty unconscious through most of it. After a brief inspection of our house RG determined it wasn't us that was about to be... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 4:27 AM Comments (13) (link) Monday, February 21, 2005A SECULAR PILGRIMAGEWhether it's the Virgin of Guadalupe or Mecca, religious folk have been trekking to sites that hold some significance to them for as long as there have been organized communities on the earth. RG and I don't have any religious leanings (at least they are not apparent) but this weekend he and I got... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 9:41 AM Comments (12) (link) Wednesday, January 19, 2005KILLING ME SOFTLYHow do you define an alcoholic? My dad's drinking made my childhood a dark and threatening place but not all the time. (I've written about this before in my memoir, SIX GENERATIONS...) I thought of him at various times as a serial alcoholic, a binge drinker, a functional alcoholic. The problem is he... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 3:51 AM Comments (25) (link) |
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