Icons Fetishes Symbolism and Learning to Live with it My son Chip was of the mind that a cuddly gift was Mother’s Day appropriate. Perhaps that was part of his Peter Pan affinity.  Thus, my overwhelming collection of 3 feet tall fuzzy Teddy Bears, Elephants, Snoopy Dogs  and more, in assorted pinks and grays and whites. […]

This is a recent experience I had in a doctor’s office. (not for the first time) Nurse: Approaching quietly and whispering in my ear: “Mrs. Rosen, I think you made a mistake on your intake papers. You wrote, DOB as being 1927, and I think you might want to correct it.” Well, of course, I’d like to […]

The good thing about the dead people you love is: that they don’t stay dead. They come back in so many ways to flood us with their preseMy 65 year old son Chip, dead now for 10 months, comes back to me in the  yellow rose bush which he gave me for Valentine’s day several years […]

I confess: this is the tale of an aberrant. I took a survey among “my people” – and it seems that the feelings  I express herein are not shared by the majority of that (or any?) population. Thus, in the interest of the current rising tide that focuses on diversity, I owe “the public”  my piece of […]

I’ve tallied up a lot of years, Recalling them was fun But none seemed as significant, As Twenty Twenty-One The underlying malaise, And the overt discontent The fraying of the edges And the stuff that folks resent The metaphor of fisticuffs The boiling point of “fight” The fact that loving kindness- Seems to dim its […]