Sixty
Today I turn 60 and it’s fine, I mean, I feel fine but emotionally it sucks and I’ve been thinking about that, why that is. I am active and strong […]
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49 Tomorrows
The other day I clicked on a “calculate your life expectancy quiz”. After entering the data I clicked for the result. A kind of superstitious awe filled me. 60 This […]
Famous Last Words
Today I read the last words of a reporter who blogged his own death. His name was Mark Mooney, and I don’t know what kind of reporter he was in […]
I’m not your tomboy or your tiny dancer either.
The first person to call me a tomboy was Cathy Lidisky. “Me and Sandy are tomboys, aren’t we?” she said, as if sure of my agreement. We were in sixth […]
They carried a man out feet first at the symphony last night.
don’t let stress ruin your life
The View From My Run: Election Edition
I brought my phone on my daily run so that I could start tracking my progress with the Strava app and also because I live in a beautiful place and […]
Gutting the Gut Decision
A short time ago, A VC named John Greathouse published an op ed piece in the WSJ — in the Leadership section, no less — urging women to get noticed by VCs with the […]
Running as Creative Force or, A Good Start to the Year
I’m not superstitious (much) but if the way the first day of 2016 has unfolded is predictive of the year I will have, then I will have a year where difficult […]
18 Things No One Suspected The Writer of Thinking, Much less Knowing
One of the two of us will be last. You can only flush so many times. There are some smells, like fates, you cannot escape. I can look away so […]
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