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last thing I remember I was in a horrific situation in downtown Easton, an apartment with broken windows rats possums and body lice, 40 bags of garbage below the kitchen window. And I was paying a thousand dollars a month for it. When I signed on I was practically falling down I was so ill.…
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it’s the 9th day of Christmas this is the holiday season to surpass all others. I have been blocked from the holidays for 45 years. because of an unfortunate incident in my family. turns out it was all because of Judith. My mother. who is specifically responsible for all of my smoking woes. And also…
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my New Year’s resolutions past and present: today, I woke up in a quandary at 4 a.m. and in a murky place after a rough night as I walked down 45 years since a horrible incident in my family which must remain private from this moment forward. I had woken up all loused up with…
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finally seeing it that I don’t need permission to pick up my marbles and go play somewhere else. This is a rule that I need to apply generally across so many situations in my life. But I am thinking specifically of the Harvard Advocate. I was waiting for a rescue from the situation where I…
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got a haircut my worst fears are set aside thought I was irrecoverable from the lesion surgery prayed to the Lord this morning for a reprieve from my ugliness in the wake of the metamorphosis from the “wart-mole” lesion surgery. I thought that there would be a cosmetic phase but no such phase seemed to…
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Cocoa the mouse. Got her leg broken by an insensitive vet who pulled her out of her lovely transparent blue plastic ball hideaway when her toe was caught in one of the slats. She pulled something in her hip and was dragging herself around after that. I was afraid to take her back to the…
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de facto it turned out to be a “pre-Wed” degree to marry a Mackintosh (clan Chattan)— the kitten in Mower A-31, Freshman Yard, not withstanding. I learned about my father’s work and learned everything I needed to know to support a Canadian armchair intellectual in his work as a geodetic engineer who wanted to switch…
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re my Harvard roommates first of all I had two beautiful roommates when I returned to Harvard from my years leave of absence senior year. I wonder why they didn’t put me with smoking roommates? One was a ballerina and the other was a rock band member. They were returning sophomores who had taken time…
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an overdue aoology. the aliens have stepped in as asked. in the first place: oh my dear Anita and Sally, please know that I never meant to harm you. I was in deep over my head with a family situatuation. Sally you look at my father over my head when he showed up with my…
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first of all it helps with chronic pain issues. It also significantly relieves anxiety. It helps breathing in such a curious way. With asthma and bronchitis it supplies oxygen by enabling the draw when your breathing is in crisis. Works for me all the time. In Florida years ago I was having mini heart attacks…

