so i was wondering if my blog should take on a focus- and if so what? I have several areas of string interest and even expertise but would blogging about them be of any interest? human development ( two graduate degrees) sexuality, marriage, relationships - or so my licenses and degrees suggest.
and then there is a life of being a reasonably observant jew (except for this week I have totally rebelled for the first time). Or I could focus on books, old odd movies, Portland events and activities, food, botany, fashion bitching, or continue the generalized whining and personal reflection that has become my regular fodder. I confess i prefer the latter because it is easy and stream of consciousness and reminds me of my college column called peregrinations in which i could just go on about anything. of course i could bash people but that gets old quickly believe it or not. if life too short to worry about this too? and aren't I good not to use last names? my neighbor opened her back door today for all of two minutes, I almost thought she was going to use hr backyard but she just set out food for her cat which isn't allowed inside because it has "issues" with her baby. (she really said this)
when I was a child my first career path was to become america's little sweetheart, then a nurse, then a man hating but sexually profligate writer, and poet, then a soccer mom, I went to school to become a dentist, switched to botany, then art history with the goal of art critic or curator and then made a fair amount og money being a therapist, community activist, and artist. Now as I enter the decade when women become invisible to 30 yo shop clerks so I could start stealing things from Anthropologie and get away with it, but luckily i DO have a conscience.
Started Joan Didion's Year of Magical Thinking and it hurts to the core. she never lost it. never. tomorrow i may transcribe one of my poems. shiver.
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