The Reason I Will Never Have a Dog

Iā€™m obsessed with dogs. Specifically, Iā€™m obsessed with how crazy people are about their dogs. In a way, it has come as a relief to finally learn why Iā€™ve never understood the dog-human attachment: I ...Read More →

Why I Write

By the time I picked up running fifteen years ago, I already had a special relationship with words and language. In college, one of my majors was French and Iā€™d also gotten a graduate degree in translation...Read More →

It Was NOT a Shotgun Wedding

Cesar and I were married just nine months after we met. It was not a shotgun wedding, as we reckon some assumed. We were madly in love. But we didnā€™t marry for love only. We married because any real...Read More →

Aging: Age is Not Just a Number

Being older is the same as being younger in many respects. Thatā€™s what I think anyway. Iā€™ll be 53 this month and my needs and wants are not much different than they were at 35. I continue to want love,...Read More →

Making Sense of an Autism Diagnosis

Remember when autism used to be the rarest of conditions? When it would conjure up either Rain Man or the one autistic person youā€™d ever met in your life? For me, it was the boy at the beach who walked...Read More →

Jealousy: I Was Decidedly NOT Jealous

It all started 21 years ago when we immigrated to the United States and joined our local YMCA, where I enrolled in yoga classes with an instructor I shall name Kate. I would come home raving about them...Read More →