by dmcgoodwin | Jan 1, 1970 | Pillow Talk, Uncategorized
What fabric do you always, suddenly, want to wear this time of year? Anything velvet, although irridescent tafettas and red plaids are close contenders. (I have a thing for those red plaid pants that some of the dads would wear to Christmas Eve church.) Every...
by dmcgoodwin | Jan 1, 1970 | Pillow Talk, Uncategorized
I have two beautiful, brilliant, fantastic daughters who are, thankfully, remarkably confident and happy teenagers (well, pre-teen in the younger daughter’s case, not that you’d know it). We moved to Vermont from New York for the...
by dmcgoodwin | Jan 1, 1970 | Pillow Talk, Uncategorized
The 10th anniversary of 9/11 has come & gone, marked this year with admirable restraint from the fear-mongering politicians who turned the attacks into their justifications for denying our civil liberties and going to war. I don’t think I...
by dmcgoodwin | Jan 1, 1970 | Pillow Talk, Uncategorized
– Most of the bad things you worry about will never happen. Most of the bad things that do happen will never have crossed your worried mind. – My friend Shari posted this status on Facebook 3 days after enduring surgery to remove a...
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by dmcgoodwin | Jan 1, 1970 | Armaments, Uncategorized
We call them Whirling Dervishes ’cause they just gotta move. Whirling Dervish (wurl-ing dur-vish) n. 1. A mystical dancer who stands between the material and cosmic worlds. His dance is part of a sacred ceremony in which the dervish rotates in a precise...
by dmcgoodwin | Jan 1, 1970 | Pillow Talk, Uncategorized
My older daughter is gorgeous, and endearingly, kind of a geek. Last summer, instead of going off to soccer camp or hanging out at the lake or pool, she chose summer school, to brush up on Algebra II, and went to Robotics camp. I’m...
