Category: For Real?

  • Man cave meditation

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, July 20, 2014 For this one, sire, stay in bed.No one ever need know you are traveling within if you simply do not move before getting up. In fact, pretend you are still asleep. Breathe in, through the nose. You can feel the slow intake of air through your nose hairs. Nice…

  • Captain’s Log

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, June 8, 2014 Enterprise, Stardate: 42073.1 Recent days have spawned at outbreak of what ship’s science staff are calling “nostalgia” – for lack of a more precise definition. (Can one call it nostalgia if one has not ever experienced it in the first place? Lieutenant Commander Data posits that in the…

  • Guided meditation (with Laura Ingalls Wilder)

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, February 23, 2014 Get the small roughhewn stool your Pa made for you and sit down on it, thinking good thoughts because you’re a well behaved person. Your Pa always liked it when you were well behaved and you still are. Only you’re not a little girl (or boy) anymore even…

  • Dear Mr. Fireman,

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, January 26, 2014 Fire!!! Yes, I have written about hot flashes before but that was then and this is now, and I’m screaming Help! at the top of my lungs and waiting for the fire department to come and put them out. Permanently, this time. Because I am a burning building…

  • Snafu

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, November 17, 2013 It is nearly midnight and you have just arrived in New York City. It’s your first day of vacation, and your first vacation in a long time. The approach, right over the city, is unbelievable — lights for miles in the crystalline black of night, Manhattan Island like…

  • Dear Cat (from Hell)

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, March 17, 2013 It’s nearly spring, my love. You are making snorfing sounds as you eat a dinner I made by hand, with chicken livers and turkey, oatmeal and carrots. A dinner the pressure-cooked steam of which requires the house to be aired out a bit, windows opened, candles burned. A…