Category: Older Better Wiser hahaha

  • Guided meditation (for when your child goes off to college)

    Telluride Daily Planet,  Sunday, August 28, 2011 Sit comfortably on planet Earth, which is nestled quietly among the more than 300 billion stars in its galaxy and swathed by an interstellar medium of gas, dust and cosmic rays. Your eyes are closed, palms facing upward. No one is looking at you. No one cares what…

  • Job Description

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, August 15, 2010 It was the single, solitary boyfriend of my high school career (the only one clever enough to skirt the electric fence of my father), who got me thinking about jobs for the first time. By the age of 16, Peter was already depositing bi-weekly payroll checks from the…

  • Skin Deep

    Telluride Daily Planet, Friday, November 20, 2009 I really didn’t start using moisturizer until I was 48 years old. And as far as I know, only exotic types who stay out of the sun for years at a time — countesses or vampires, say — can get away with that. I have no idea what…

  • The F Word

    Telluride Daily Planet, Tuesday, October 6, 2009 March 2008. I am about to turn 50 when life sneaks up on me and does the equivalent of what my brother used to do when I was eight and he was sixteen: jump out from behind a door and scare me so bad all I can do…