Mexican Bean Beetle

by | Aug 27, 2014 | Talk Dirt to Me

A lot of my crops have been harvested. The onions and garlic are in and curing. Except for some remnants the potatoes are out. The peas have long been eaten and the first few plantings of green beans, carrots and lettuce are all spent. These have left big gaps that...

Moving Furniture

by | Aug 1, 2014 | Standing In The Shadows

I wrote about some of the seemingly most mundane things that can happily occupy a summer (or other time of year) for Brain Child’s blog. And then, there was a shelf that needed to be moved to our friends’ house just across the way. I handed the task to my...

To Greet August

by | Aug 14, 2014 | Standing In The Shadows

This week, as I walked down the promenade (Elm Street), I saw a woman trip and fall. She was running. A friend had found me walking so the two of us rushed to this woman, calmed her down, called the paramedics, called a friend of hers, and generally felt helpless...

Big and Small

by | Aug 26, 2014 | Standing In The Shadows

I’ve learned the acronym that essentially spells privacy at doctors’ offices is HIPAA. A new ruling extends it to the walls of baby photos on the walls at the OB or midwives’ office (or pediatrician, or orthodontist). We’re gonna miss the...

Take Me Out to the Storm Scene

by | Aug 1, 2014 | Stagestruck

“Blow winds, and crack your cheeks!” shouts King Lear in Act 3 Scene 1 as he rages in the tragedy’s climactic storm. But on the night I saw the play last week, at the New York Public Theater’s free outdoor Shakespeare in the Park, that line...