June 2009

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Homo sovieticus: panel

She said that in East Germany they got Russian-accented calls from strangers saying they heard the wall was going to fall down. This was before the Germans knew. They said that with the collapse of the USSR, anti-Semitism came out. They said that after...

Friday, June 26, 2009

Greetings from Sofia--a jumble

(synagogue--I didn't take the pic)Cancer Bitch finds herself in Sofia, Bulgaria, which is dingy but smells good, like lilacs. Garbage is collected at night. There was laundry hanging on the roof of a building across from our hotel. The Jews were saved...

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Madison

I read in Madison with Kathleen Rooney, under the sign of death and next to a workbook on phobia and anxiety. I don't like this picture of me but it shows that my hair has gro...

Monday, June 15, 2009

Rowing

I went boating tonight.It wasn't exactly like this. The picture on the left makes me think of You've come a long way, baby, which was an ad for cigarettes that strongly and delicately gave women cancer. As opposed to Marlboros and Marlboro men. I was...

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Chief Klein.....calls it a day!

Having a good Police Chief is a pretty important part of any community. Their attitudes, their ethics and their dedication...transfer to their officers and the general public.As we know now, Chief John Klein, a dedicated 30 year veteran of the Newport...

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Balloon in the Womb

Yesterday the gynecologist took the fibroid from the mouth of my womb. She showed a picture of it to L and my mother, but I didn't see it. I heard it looked like this:She used the new slice-and-dicer machine that mostly just makes clean-up faster, she...

Thursday, June 4, 2009

I'm 27

New City Chicago's annual Lit 50 list of people "who really book" in Chicago:27 S.L. WisenbergWisenberg serves as the co-director (with Reginald Gibbons) of Northwestern University’s MA and MFA programs in creative writing. She’s also an author herself,...

Spots and Star

My doctor looked at the spots on my leg and was dismissive: An insect bite, she said.So I won't worry.I put bleach on the spots yesterday, just in case they were non-itchy chigger bites. One of my commenters had suggested that. At any rate, the spots...

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Diagnose the Bitch!

Cancer Bitch looked down while showering today and saw two red bumps on her left leg, about six inches above her ankle. One is the size of a dime and the other about half the size. Both have irregular borders and itch slightly. Of course she had to immediately...

Monday, June 1, 2009

Taking, Losing, Making

There are two empty houses on our block and one of them has been abandoned for 39 years, according to neighborhood lore. We want to dig out some of the plants and transfer them to our little front yard. I think it would be permissible to take from the...