Someone has released a fleet of self-driving cars in my neighborhood. Not a human in sight. This morning on the way to work, a white one was stuck. Two lanes needed to merge, and in the right lane, the driverless car just sat there. All the boring … [Continue reading] about Who Cares That Robots Don’t Love Us Back
The Joy and the Whale
The swim club was abuzz. “There’s a whale out there,” a flushed-face woman announced as I dumped my bag on the locker room floor. No, she hadn’t seen it, but everyone was talking about it. “Someone said it’s just past the opening,” she said, as I … [Continue reading] about The Joy and the Whale
My Father’s Changing Hands
Cup of Jo, January 18, 2023 My father’s hands were tan with dark blue veins. His left hand was darker than his right, from years of smoking a cigar out the window of his 1965 Mustang. During synagogue services, we often played a game where … [Continue reading] about My Father’s Changing Hands
Fish and the Ordeal
In early December, I was at dinner with three friends, all of us going through different challenges having to do with illnesses, empty nests, and husbands wrestling with identity and hypochondria. We were looking at the menu and talking about fish … [Continue reading] about Fish and the Ordeal
Scare the Children
Last Saturday, I bought an enormous fuzzy spider at a thrift shop called Second Time Around. It is black with red eyes and was in a large plastic bin with a broken skeleton, two dirty scarecrows, and a whole mess of Christmas ornaments. It was three … [Continue reading] about Scare the Children