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The Bay Bridge
Prompted By Rush Hour is a Misnomer!
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Crossing the bottleneck of a bridge required maneuvering through a tangle of feeder lanes, timing the rush hour, and most of all having good traffic karma.
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Beyond Sex
Prompted By Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll
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I remember when sex seemed like the border between childhood and becoming an adult, shrouded in mystery and myth, perhaps wonderful and exciting but also dangerous and distasteful. Information was scant in my middle-America 1950’s childhood, but my mother managed to pre-empt more unreliable sources by explaining the basic “facts of life” in mildly appalling…
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Bad Tattoo
Prompted By Tattoos and Piercings
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A local brewery named itself “Bad Tattoo”, a good description of far too many skin decorations.
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Waiting for the Next One
Prompted By Waiting Rooms
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There was surely some apprehension people felt while waiting for medical care, but people often chatted with the front desk or each other and in a small town, it wasn’t unusual to run into someone you knew.
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Bad Moon Rising
Prompted By Superstitions
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Beliefs about women’s health and the moon are particularly strong.
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How it Was and Is
Prompted By Shopping: Then and Now
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Maybe my mother did not have the shopping gene or never shook off the Depression and Protestant ethos, but she seems to have passed that shopping ambivalence on to me.
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The Meaning of Life
Prompted By Books That Inspired Me
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How did I happen to read that book? I don’t remember anyone giving it to me or seeing it in the house, so most likely it was in a school library, maybe thoughtfully displayed by a librarian, or maybe just calling to me from a shelf. In any case it was not like anything I had read and it spoke powerfully to my own adolescent yearning to make sense of existence.
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Borderline
Prompted By Fears and Phobias
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I still have a pang in my gut crossing any border, even when it should be benign. Anything could happen in that liminal area.
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Counting Pills
Prompted By Pills
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Instead of the usual “my name is” and “how are you” basics, I learned how to explain how many pills to take how often, with or without food, with cautions about dizziness, upset stomach or other side effects.
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