My Interview on Mountain Mama Radio

Monday, February 9, 2009, I will be interviewed on Mountain Mama Radio. The interview will be live from 7 to 8 PM, PST. There’s an archive of interviews on the site, in case you miss it and want to catch it later.
The interview was prompted by my new Elder Geek series on Time Goes By. [...]

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Bi

NPR is on in my office. An announcer just said something like “Eleanor Roosevelt, now known to be bisexual . . . blah blah blah.” I didn’t hear the end of it. I hadn’t know that she was ‘know to be bisexual’ so it was too much of a shock to catch the end of [...]

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Supper

The faded widower down the block was watering his grass by hand this morning when I walked by. He was always so hungry for conversation. I invited him to supper.
At noon I answered the door and there he stood, in a clean white shirt and a tie. “Thanks for inviting me to supper,” he said. [...]

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Dinner

Yesterday I went to Revolutionary Road. It got me thinking about the 50s. Women spent all day getting ready to have a dinner party. Setting the table, preparing the food. Alone.
When the company was gone, a woman cleaned up, washed the dishes, put away the china. Perhaps alone.
My mom worked. Unusual in the 50s. She [...]

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Lunch

On parting, she often said, “Let’s do lunch.” It was like saying goodbye. A form without much substance. I’d never had lunch with her. Not once.
She appeared in my office door yesterday. She looked frazzled. “I need to talk to you,” she said, “could you go to lunch today?” I almost said no. From the [...]

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Breakfast

Then: pancakes with real butter and real maple syrup. Now: pancakes with artificial yellow stuff  and something resembling syrup. Then: eggs and bacon each morning. Now: some sort of fortified grainy, crunchy mix and 1% milk. Then: something to look forward to. Now: one more way to do the right thing. Today, the right thing [...]

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Dessert

Bam! I’m inventing dessert with dried apricots. Those moist, gooey ones. Not the ones dried to shoe leather. Yeah. Put one of those moist babies on a gingersnap. Umm, Umm. Or combine one with a square of dark chocolate. Bam! Or chop them up a bit and throw them in your cereal. Oh, wait, I’m [...]

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Forgot

You forgot your password.
Sorry, but we can’t take your order.
No, you can’t order anyway,
‘Cause we already know your email.
Click Reset.
Just go ahead, click reset.
OK. Now what?
Now we wait.
Maybe hours, maybe minutes
But wait.
When the new password
Finally arrives
We can match you up
To what we already know.
Order.
Then you can forget the new password.
Please leave a comment with your [...]

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You look like

“You look like you belong in the Amen Corner in that hat,” I said. She didn’t hear me. She might have agreed that she was dressed for the Amen Corner if she had, because she knew what she was doing. She is the queen, after all. Still the queen after all the years and all [...]

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Big Week

It’s a big week in the USA. The change, the historic excitement, the end of the era of W, the promise, the celebration: it’s all percolating and boiling in everyone, creating a sort of universal tingle all over the country. I’m planning to combine, TV, computer, and iPhone streams into a real time media gulp [...]

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