When I think of the ocean, I always think of Ocean City, NJ. If I’d known when I was 13, or 16, or 26, or 46, or 66 that my days summering for a week at the NJ seashore wouldn’t last forever, I wouldn’t have believed it.
For over 50 summers I spent a week reveling in the New Jersey shore. My parents rented a small 2-bedroom cottage beginning when I was 11 years old and from then on, we never looked back. THIS was our summer vacation. Continue reading
A little over a year ago I wrote a “fictional” account of getting a matching tattoo with my 16-year-old granddaughter, Sophie. Tattoo Trauma | roughwighting
As much as we wanted to make our action non-fictionable, in our state no tattooing is allowed for anyone under 18.
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Particular I am, about how to fold sheets
Angled into a square, or a rectangle but I
Muddle along realizing sheets, and life, don’t fold neatly because
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I remember how infuriating our son, the second born, could be.
I remember from ages 3 to 18 (when he went off to college, phew) our darling boy asking not “why?” but “why not?”
I remember a hundred Why Nots a day – why not go to his friend’s house at 10 p.m.; why not eat a whole box of Oreo cookies in one sitting; why not skip school when it’s sunny and he can hike in the hills next door.
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JOB DESCRIPTION: Medical Editor. Graduate degree preferred with a scientific/medical background as well as English graduate-level aptitude in writing. Copyedit and proof medical tomes of fascinating surgical procedures accompanied by long-winded indecipherable descriptions of intricate invasive operating techniques. Speed and precision are a must. Salary depends on expertise and experience.
I’ve got five glorious hours ahead of me this morning to edit an upcoming book tentatively entitled Core Topics in General and Emergency Surgery. I met the author/surgeon at the publisher’s office six months ago, when the doctor signed the contract and insisted on meeting the editor. Me. 
Oh, what an “honor” to meet such an important man. Continue reading
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