I Am This Woman

Howdy and Happy Holidays, people that I haven’t been in touch with but really really wanted to give an update on my life to…

I haven’t received one of these wonderful holiday letters in a very long time. I wonder if that’s because I secretly mock them? Way back in 1987, I wrote such a letter that included four possible scenarios of how I was doing. Had my year been a yuppie’s dream, all carefully planned and organized? Was I the new owner and operator of a muffler repair shop, breeding pitbulls? Was I working on a dissertation on Latvian hankerchief borders, or had I succumbed to a stereotypical paradigm of male domination and patriarchy by taking up with a professor? (more…)