Category Archives: musing

a small rumination on the news from NY

Posted on July 26, 2011 by dichroic

I don’t think anyone who reads my blog needs convincing, but it seems a bit obligatory to write something when you’re faced with history. Way back when we lived in Texas, my husband (then fairly newly promoted to that title) … Continue reading →

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someone’s little girl? so what?

Posted on April 6, 2011 by dichroic

This article irritates me a bit, in the same way that Kipling’s “Unknown Female Corpse” from “Epitaphs of the War” does: Headless, lacking foot and hand, Horrible I come to land. I beseech all women’s sons Know I was a … Continue reading →

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the menopausal vampire

Posted on March 25, 2011 by dichroic

It was just brought to my attention that Arabella Keneally, an early “feminist” (in more or less the way Phyllis Schlafly and Sarah Palin are feminists) wrote a cautionary tale about “the menopausal vampire”. I can’t help but think that … Continue reading →

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menopause “seminar”

Posted on February 12, 2011 by dichroic

I’m still a little ticked off that this body didn’t come with an owners manual, but of all the things I’ve been through menopause stands out for being a normal stage that half of the population goes through, yet is … Continue reading →

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how far out to be?

Posted on January 5, 2011 by dichroic

One of the things I did over vacation was to hang up a mezuzah on our new house. It’s a beautiful copper/verdigris one that was a Chanukah present from my parents, at my request. I wonder about having it there, … Continue reading →

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speaking up from a different perspective

Posted on October 14, 2010 by dichroic

The following is an expanded version of what I posted on Facebook today, and in a comment to my original post. (Facebook statusesuseses can only be 420 characters, so I had to cut a lot of what I wanted to … Continue reading →

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Crowley spoke Dutch??

Posted on July 14, 2010 by dichroic

Half the fun of learning Dutch, for me at least, is hearing the echoes of an older English. (I’m pretty sure that Kind Alfred and his compatriots would have found the Zeelanders of their time intelligible, or nearly so.) On … Continue reading →

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facing a whole weekend with nothing much I have to do and a whole Richard Thompson mix

Posted on July 10, 2010 by dichroic

Jaime’s post reminded me that there’s a lot of Richard Thompson on YouTube:. Just imagine hearing him play in your living room. Or someone’s living room, anyway: And if you click on that video and go over to YouTube, on … Continue reading →

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peeking in a distant mirror

Posted on May 21, 2010 by dichroic

I don’t think I mentioned it here, but something happened a couple days ago that was pretty cool. I saw an old friend was online on Facebook, so I said hi in FB chat, and she suggested going to Skype. … Continue reading →

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thoughts on aging

Posted on May 11, 2010 by dichroic

Looking at pictures of myself and some other women I’ve known for a long time, I’m beginning to solidify some thoughts I’ve had for a long time: for many women, there’s a point in our 40s or 50s when we … Continue reading →

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