Category Archives: What I Did

Easing into the Back Nine of Life

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Liza Blue

Sixty is a magical number, the six and the zero plumply nestled together and then flanked by the stern prime numbers 59 and 61.  And 60 is so accommodating, evenly divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6; the … Continue reading →

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Last One Picked

Posted on March 18, 2016 by Liza Blue

Our seventh grade class was divided into several cliques: the boy crazy girls, the horse crazy girls, the sporty girls, the brainy girls and the blah girls, the default category of those with no mainstream identity. The boy crazy girls were … Continue reading →

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A Parent Death

Posted on December 10, 2014 by Liza Blue

I was in my early fifties when I started to wonder where I would be exactly when I learned that my mother was dying. Would I be in the midst of a routine errand, idling in traffic at the busy … Continue reading →

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Bad Baby Shower

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Liza Blue

It didn’t take long for the two of us to make a social faux pas as a married couple. It was 1981 and we were still figuring out how to divvy up chores, and so far had done so along … Continue reading →

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Good Humor Man

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Liza Blue

In 1969, when my father was at the peak of his career as a printing salesman, he decided to put an in-ground swimming pool in our back yard.  It seemed like an odd decision since neither of my parents were … Continue reading →

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A Glass of Orange Juice

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Liza Blue

I had never been to Ty’s house before, so I waited for Mrs. Winterbotham to answer the doorbell and usher me to her bedroom.  The room was paneled with dark wood; heavy drapes let in a sliver of afternoon light.  Ty … Continue reading →

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Two Truths and a Lie

Posted on March 19, 2014 by Liza Blue

Here is an addition to the category of “Odd but True, Anatomy Division.”  It is a third human nipple, a vestige of our evolution from large litters to the current format of single gestations followed by prolonged parenting.  About five percent of … Continue reading →

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Outside the Myers-Briggs Box

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Liza Blue

I know it’s going to be a tough night – guaranteed uncertainty, possible angst spiked with a jolt of humiliation.  Nick tells me that I’ll know plenty of people at the cocktail party, but that’s not the point.  The Myers-Briggs … Continue reading →

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The Favor

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Liza Blue

I don’t use a cell phone.  At first, it was because I really didn’t need one.  Then I thought that I could make a quiet personal statement about the silliness of instant access – glances down at a discreet cell … Continue reading →

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The Tyranny of the Lie

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Liza Blue

My all girls high school was like any other with its typical array of cliques – the pretty, the ugly, the jocks, brains, geeks and the occasional total misfit.  But the fact that it was a boarding school added another … Continue reading →

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