Not surprisingly, many women chose the bear. Also not surprisingly, many men chimed in with their mansplainations about why women were wrong.
Man vs Bear: Lynn’s Version
Smokey, the Old Canoe Paddler
Smokey was sneaky. Houdini-like. He was born under a “wand’rin’ star, or as Jim liked to say, he paddled his own canoe.
Groundhog Day…and Night
"Who are your people who give a shit that you’ve been chased up a tree and have nowhere to go?"
March 25: The day “go on with your life” began
For 41 years I’ve met March 25 with feelings of varying degrees of “This day sucks.” Some years I put my fingers in my ears and try to tune it all out. Some years I sprinkle “blood” on my doorstop and hope it passes over me.
Doesn’t Mean He Wasn’t a Jerk…
"That same year, another officer pulled me over, on a back country road, for a burned out taillight and said he’d let you go if I gave him a blowjob."
I *heart* the ’90s
"Sixty isn’t anything like I expected it to be, but maybe that’s because the 1990s continue to influence me and inform who I am."
To: Taylor. From: a DV survivor. Re: Your boyfriend
But you don't lean into your coach and yell at him! That's a BIG NO.
Drinking v Eating Calories
Every year, and especially as I get older, I go kicking and screaming into Fall. Why does Fall have to be so short, while spring takes forever to get here? Anyway, once I admit that I’m powerless over the change from Summer to Fall, I’m all about the food and drink. This morning I tried … Continue reading Drinking v Eating Calories
The Photo
When I decided to cut meat from my diet 15 years ago, the hardest to let go of was bacon. Specifically, Trader Joe’s uncured turkey bacon, but really, any kind of bacon. I also turned into a vegetarian snob, shunning any food product that tried to be meat. But a year ago I loosened the … Continue reading The Photo
“You know, like ‘The Parent Trap’!”
"It was June 1976. I’d stopped wetting the bed and I hadn’t yet gotten my period. It was a glorious time in my life!"
Lynn Haraldson, Author and Writing Mentor 