On My Grandmother’s 80th Birthday

I think about career. My grandmother was a successful physician and administrator who ended her working days after well over 50 years, more than half a century of infectious diseases and bureaucracies. I think about old age. I know how much she misses work – the starched white coat, the nurses flipping on the electricContinue reading “On My Grandmother’s 80th Birthday”

I should have invited that guy over for tea and sex, right?

Camille Paglia is pissing me off again; the universe has righted itself at last About a week before the horrible events that took place at Virginia Tech, I took a late-evening stroll to the gym. I planned on watching the Daily Show (we haven’t had a TV since the winter) while I sweated. The gymContinue reading “I should have invited that guy over for tea and sex, right?”