Archive - Twenty Good Years

These are Things I Heard and Saw

A civilian report from the ICE protests in Los Angeles.

Jun 12 •

A note from the protests against ICE and the National Guard in Los Angeles

Jun 10 •

April 2025

Between Supplicant and Bitch

Or “My quest to assert myself without pissing off everyone I love”

Apr 10 •

March 2025

Thoughts on Loneliness and Belonging

Recently, just days after his mother died, my husband Pat left home for an eight-week job.

Mar 27 •

December 2024

What I learned in 2024

A friend who has twenty years on me once said, “When you get older, you don’t see life getting longer, stretching out in front of you like a road, so…

Dec 28, 2024 •

What Do We Do Now?

Along with half of the American people, I have walked around in a daze since the election.

Dec 3, 2024 •

September 2024

What is a good day for you?

The unbearable lightness of accepting impermanence

Sep 24, 2024 •

August 2024

The Rage of Women of a Certain Age

And a little about mine in particular

Aug 12, 2024 •

June 2024

Or, What I learned from the terribly wrong psychic

Jun 19, 2024 •

May 2024

Every Day I Write the Book, Part 4

Goodbye England and all those lovely ghosts

May 23, 2024 •

Every Day I Write the Book, Part 3

Thoughts on my mother and a poem and dying and betrayal in no particular order

May 17, 2024 •

Every Day I Write the Book, Part 2

May 6, 2024 •

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