I mean… Is it MY fault that you can’t put 2+2 together ?? Did I CREATE your lack of intellect ? Have I somehow CONTRIBUTED to the abundance of vacuous, NEGATIVE space inside your frontal lobe ?? What do you WANT FROM ME ?? I’m just the FREAKIN’ MESSENGER !!! And… FURTHERMORE….. I HAVE TRIED… Read More »

And Eve said to Adam… “Take a freakin’ bite already !!” “What’s the worst possible thing that can happen ??” Eve, we hear, had never been long on patience… PATIENCE was NOT her virtue,,,, Adam considered the RED, JUICY APPLE which Eve held out to him so ‘unabashedly’….. ***Interesting to note that EVE WAS BUCK NACKED at this point….. Read More »

Color….. It’s EVERYWHERE ! undeniable….non negotiable COLOR… SO VIBRANT that you can actually TOUCH it…. even SMELL it…. The challenge, my friends, is to RECOGNIZE it… to see COLOR as the grouting which splices together the MOSAIC of your life… It is neither GRAY… nor simply UTILITARIAN…. It is the MATTER…. the SACRED SPACE…. Read More »

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Can we CO EXIST with the “Enemy” ? So… Where EXACTLY does one draw the line ? What constitutes “ENEMY” ? Can we EVER put our cultural and ethnic beliefs ASIDE… Read More »

So the bearded sage posed the question: “Do we spend our time ” WANTING the LIGHT” ?” Or…. ” HAVING the LIGHT?” I must tell you……This is an EXCELLENT, PROVOCATIVE QUESTION !! Disconcerting rather….. What is it that we are in such HOT PURSUIT of ?? (I realize that I ended the question with a preposition!)… (Chill out…OK ? : }})…. Read More »

Its all some sort of mystical mind play… I’m 150% positive about this! We CONTEMPLATE….. and we CONSIDER…… and we hold VERY tightly to the concept of EVOLUTION….. and Anthropomorphic Gobbledygook….. We do YOGA and MEDITATION… and we freaking visit GURUS in the Himalayas… (Well…I DON’T !!) But people DO !! I’m tellin’ ya… Read More »

Not exactly the ” When it rains, it pours ” thing…. But along those kind of lines, I guess…. Plenty seems to beget Plenty… uhhhh…. Abundance tends to group itself with MORE abundance… What am I saying ?? That you CAN, in point of fact, my friends,….. HAVE IT ALL…. Every little freakin’ bit of it… With just ONE caveat…. Read More »

albeit insidiously…….. by the potential for MANIPULATED WHIMSY…. hmmm… And something behind her eyes… in that intuitive space….. in that “knowing” space… had never been “quite right” with it….. But, alas…. as “sucking in” usually does…… it held her captive… a prisoner… in a jail cell of her own design….. RED….SMOKY…. Read More »

But I can tell you, without hesitation…. without caveat….. that He ALWAYS responds to our prayers…. The key to receiving this response is ‘many-fold’…. First and foremost…. (at least in MY experience)… the request must be grounded in ////REASON////….. In other words, ‘Winning the Lottery’ would not be a REASONABLE request…. Read More »

There comes a point, my friends….. when it just isn’t freakin’ worth it anymore… And…GUESS WHAT ?? The BACKBONE that you always perceived yourself as possessing inordinate amounts of….. YOU DIDN’T !! You just let them walk all over your ass for YEARS…. Make NO mistake !!! It is what it is, Girlfriend…. But, Here’s what…… Read More »

There’s a crazy storm outside… and all I want to do is HIDE….under the covers…. Way far down…. beneath even the daylight…. in that cozy place where time is irrelevant to the surroundings…. And it most certainly does NOT feel like GOD is CRYING this time…. Not at all…. It feels, rather, like RAGE…. Read More »

there was the unmistakable essence of camaraderie… just a mere suggestion of simpatico…. of empathy.. And for those few moments, her world stood still… silent…. and the ever-twirling and whirling and overwhelming debris… actually seemed to disappear…. “In its place?”, you ask ? Green tundra…. organic….solid….consistent…. Read More »

What does this mean ? That we should “let go” of old thoughts ? old friends ? or… That we can begin ANEW ? That the things or people or circumstances that HELD US BACK… should be simply FORGOTTEN ? Curious words…. a POTENT SENTIMENT though…. And what of the OLD ACQUAINTANCE that should NOT be forgot ? Just meandering really… Read More »

Is it true that once you have a ‘child’ with a person… that the person becomes inextricably bound to you ? and YOU to THEM ? regardless of changing circumstances, divorce(s), ‘insanity’, etc ? What if you’ve been a VICTIM with regard to this person ? thinking, for instance, that they were ONE WAY…. Read More »

So it went like this….. She thought and thought about whether she had contributed to the “greater good”… Read More »

The considerable aroma of “”CARBS”" permeates the front lines of Jewish homes throughout the land…. Blue and white, iced cookies fill the shelves of local supermarkets and bakeries…. The shining and shimmering CHOCOLATE CHANUKAH GELT wrappers .. continue to twinkle and invite…. Doughnuts have been filled with luscious, red jams and jellies… Read More »

In the end, after weeks of searching high and low for Violet’s mother, Missy and Carmine came to the very sad realization that Violet was SIMPLY NOT WANTED… that this magnificent little girl had NOONE who cared enough about her to be bothered… Her mother had left the country with some man she’d met a month or so before in some mall… Read More »

In the end, after weeks of searching high and low for Violet’s mother, Missy and Carmine came to the very sad realization that Violet was SIMPLY NOT WANTED… that this magnificent little girl had NOONE who cared enough about her to be bothered… Her mother had left the country with some man she’d met a month or so before in some mall… Read More »

When do we become ‘our parents’ ?? When is it….precisely… that we happen to look into a mirror (NOT the mirror at HOME!) (an ‘unfamiliar’ mirror) (usually one we that we happen by on an escalator or in a store, etc…) a GLIMPSE ! a MOVING IMAGE…. Read More »