Where's my degree?

I am tired of seeing doctors and doctors and getting estimates and giving my insurance card to be photocopied and also the list of medicine ...

The Looming Future

R said she was afraid that after she gave birth to her twins, she would be seized by post-partum depression. She was afraid she'd turn i...

I don't wanna think about it.

I'm not talking about cancer. I'm talking about rowing. I started rowing on Thursday with the cancer rowers . The boat, as noted pre...

The Things We Remember

[Student prison, no longer in service, U of Heidelberg] At the 30th high school reunion, I told S that I remembered that in elementary schoo...

Facebook/Who we were

In junior high, we were S and S and S (same names, two different spellings) and L, and sometimes the other L, who wasn't Jewish. S and L...

Familiar/de-familiarization

The things we know. The things we think we know. The things we feel we know. We were talking about Germany tonight. T's next book is abo...

Bay Area

I read from my book last night to a group at the Women's Cancer Resource Center in Oakland. It's independent, and sponsors many gro...