Tag: women
member name: Cynthia C.
|
December 13, 2007 06:34 AM EST --
The green glass ball was the size of a very large grapefruit. It was an odd, sort of warm shade of green with hints of gold and surprisingly heavy, which implies a certain robust quality that may help . . .
more
|
|
August 23, 2006 08:07 AM EDT --
How many of you have been the object of a stalker's attention in real life?
I met Billy S. at a party I was attending with RG and some of our mutual friends. When RG and I go out we do not stick . . .
more
|
|
July 02, 2008 08:42 AM EDT --
On one of my recent business trips, something in my carry-on luggage caused one of our diligent security guards to call me to the side bar and give me thedreaded equivalent of a strip search in public. . . .
more
|
|
July 07, 2006 07:57 AM EDT --
Life was easier when I lied and cheated like a normal person.
Adding RG to my list of current intimate relationships was perfect. Now I had true happiness, nearly Nirvana. Three wonderful men. . . .
more
|
|
October 20, 2007 02:26 PM EDT --
The large pink envelope arrived in today's mail. I knew it was a birthday card from my mother. It is part of the ritual, these small gestures that she has always done, her way of showing affection. . . .
more
|
|
August 16, 2006 07:50 AM EDT --
There was only one form of birth control left to try (abstinence was not on my radar screen), the intra-uterine device, or I.U.D. My history of failure with everything else was discouraging.
There were . . .
more
|
|
September 30, 2006 01:48 PM EDT --
Yesterday was Brooke's last as a summer intern. She was one of those bright, attractive, energetic young women who have been drawn to our company over the years and dedicated enough to work for free. . . .
more
|
|
November 22, 2006 08:50 AM EST --
My daughter recently graduated from nursing school and works in a maternity ward in a hospital in Montreal. She is also trained as a CPR instructor and is a "lactation specialist". This is someone . . .
more
|
|
November 27, 2006 08:26 AM EST --
We Americans are at war with ourselves. Politics and religion are the most evident and most debated but there is another rather insidious war being waged for our physicality, our bodies, (mainly women's . . .
more
|
|
February 28, 2007 10:53 PM EST --
In the 1950's women didn't have muscles, unless they lived and worked on a farm. Of course everyone has to have muscles or they couldn't stand up, what I mean is they weren't supposed to . . .
more
|
|
January 27, 2008 11:18 AM EST --
It's not like I've sailed through life being untouched by death. My husband died at the relatively youthful age of 52. I was 10 years younger and had left him years earlier. He was also the father . . .
more
|
|
March 02, 2008 01:02 PM EST --
They came in a plain, small, cardboard box. RG was home when the doorbell rang. The postman handed over the parcel and had him sign for it. Then he called me at the office to tell me it had arrived. I'd . . .
more
|
|
May 10, 2006 07:49 AM EDT --
I discovered the wonders of make-up at the age of 13, the year before I discovered the wonders of sex. Whether one was contingent on the other, I'm not exactly sure but in my subconscious they are . . .
more
|
|
May 16, 2006 06:55 AM EDT --
Is this a learned skill to be encouraged, a genetic trait that can't be helped, or a tendency that needs to be squelched when it pops up in your children?
For me, there is no doubt in my mind, I was . . .
more
|
|
May 20, 2008 08:28 AM EDT --
That is the headline in today's NYTimes on a full page ad taken out by WomenCountPAC in San Francisco. A PAC is an independent political organization that does not represent any particular candidate . . .
more
|
|
October 24, 2006 08:11 AM EDT --
Lee was young, 26, black. I'd met him at a party. I was 39.
RG had been doing a lot of public writing events around this time. He would set up his typewriter in some public place, like an Art . . .
more
|
|
December 05, 2006 07:38 AM EST --
It all started, as far as I can remember, in puberty, sweating. I sweat profusely, but most concentratedly, under my arms.
It's one thing to soak your clothing when it's 90 degrees in the shade, . . .
more
|
|
June 03, 2007 11:03 AM EDT --
Somehow it seemed perfect. Immodest, RG used that word to describe me last night. It fit like a glove.
We had dinner at Rise's. RG calculated that about 26 people had been invited, casually, granted . . .
more
|
|
September 03, 2007 12:50 PM EDT --
This Labor Day weekend found me surrounded by my loving, funny, adorable granddaughters in my daughter's house in Montreal. It is where my heart pulls me whenever there is enough time in my busy work . . .
more
|
|
July 12, 2008 11:39 AM EDT --
I just spoke to my my friend, Lois Tarlow. Boston Globe art critic, Robert Taylor, wrote an excellent review of her retrospective at the Brockton Museum and I called to congratulate her. We had a long . . .
more
|
|
|
|
