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Barbara Blake

Mom, I woke up this morning at 5:20 not knowing why so early. I got up, went to the living room, closed the bedroom door, and immediately booted up the laptop in a reflexive check-my-email kind of way. This of course sent me into eBay, bidding on a dance game that I’m trying to buy […]

Sjogren’s and My Mom

This was a tough mother’s day. I’m facing a 10-year anniversary of my Mom’s death on May 25, 1996. Her death was mysterious. She had slowly disintegrated over a 2-year period, losing her hair, getting what she thought was psoriasis inside her eyes, mouth, ears, and eventually all over her body. Her liver failed, filling […]

Nobody’s Jack

It was 1976, and our high school English teacher, Sr. Nora Doody (I kid you not — her real name) was handing out test results to our Junior class. Not SAT tests, or English tests, but a standardized test known as the Kuder Preference Test. This career-aptitude test comprised a series of multiple choice questions […]

For Want of the Right Want

Western minds could argue this one to death: the utility of desire. I do believe that it’s largely semantic, but I also believe that in our hearts, we know when desire is a driving force for the furtherance of life, and when it is a rationalization to fulfill a lower appetite. Even in that sentence, […]