GiGi's Gambit
GiGi2009
- Location
- Rockville, Maryland, USA
- Birthday
- August 03
- Title
- Present
- Company
- I wouldn't mind...
- Bio
- I was born in NYC, a post-war kid. In the early 40's the folks moved my brother and I to a small town in NJ so we "wouldn't have to grow up in The City".
Hillside was a small enclave between Newark and Elizabeth, but the town was to grow rapidly. All around me houses sprouted, schools were being built, kids and their families were moving into the neighborhood. What an adventure!
I filled diary after diary with all the new things that were happening. and I soon began to realize the true joy of writing life as I saw it.
Since then, I have been a frustrated writer and poet, of sorts.
I've found in OS, a place hang out and share my delight of the written word with others who enjoy it as well.
Many years later, I live just outside of D.C. in A Quiet Place, a peaceful garden with my dog, Pucci, the cats, Pyewacket and Babe, and a pond full of Koi. My paper and pencil are beside me and I am ready for...
MY RECENT POSTS
- Welcome, Sigmund Freud!
July 30, 2010 11:03PM - What Do You Really Know? And
How Did You Learn It?
November 26, 2009 03:26PM - Home as a Reflection of Self
October 18, 2009 10:10PM - Disillusion
October 11, 2009 11:23PM - From the Deck
October 10, 2009 04:11PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Hello, Steve. GiGi here,
qwiverring from the
exquisite
accuracy of a
culture I,…”
January 30, 2010 06:44PM - “Hi, Buffy! It's been a
while since I've been here.
What fun
to come back and
the…”
January 30, 2010 06:25PM - “FE -- nice to meet you.
I struggle with food...and
spend long
periods of time
in…”
November 27, 2009 08:15PM - “Thank you for this,
Delia. The perfect things seem
to come to
me when I need
to…”
November 27, 2009 07:54PM - “Ex-Londoner here. Now in
DC. Now lonely again
for
Knightsbridge, Liberty,
the B…”
November 26, 2009 11:27PM
GiGi2009's Links
Welcome, Sigmund Freud!
Sigi arrived last Saturday, about five minutes before my brother and sister-in-law arrived from Florida for their visit.
Sigi was brought to us by Maria, a woman with no last name, who participates in the "underground railroad for abused dogs and cats", called Tails of Hope.
There he was,… Read full post »
What Do You Really Know? And How Did You Learn It?
Today is Thanksgiving. I am given to deep thought on days like today, when I don't have work to do and when it's damp and rainy, as it is today.
My today process includes making a list of all that I am grateful for, and as I do so, I realized… Read full post »
Home as a Reflection of Self
It is a Sunday evening in late October. Across the room, my husband dozes in his old leather chair, our little dog lays at his feet.
The rain beats against the skylight above my head, and outside, leaves fall to the deck as the wind pull them from their branches.… Read full post »
Disillusion
Well. I'm finally facing it. This marriage of 4+ years (my third) will never be what I imagined.
When I met him six years ago, it was all about each of us finding someone to talk with, to laugh with, to BE with. I longed for someone who wanted to know… Read full post »
From the Deck
Tonight, I sit out on the back yard deck with a girlfriend, Watching leaves floating down onto the deck boards.
It… Read full post »
Thoughts on Yom Kippur, 2009
Tonight the family gathered to "break the fast". Religious Jews have been fasting all day today, spending time in the synagogue, asking for forgiveness for any ills we may have wished on anyone this past year, or repenting for bad thoughts or inappropriate deeds.
For me, it has not been the… Read full post »
D E S I R E
Sometimes, I am filled with the desire to be thin again. I try to
remember what it felt like, fitting, with ease, into a pair of size
8 pants. How often in my early years I could put on a blouse that I
could close without having it pull across my… Read full post »
REMEMBERANCES
WARREN
It was the spring of 1957 in Hillside, New Jersey. Warren and I were hanging out on the porch. It was a warm weekend afternoon. Looking forward to the final week of our last year in high school, we sat together on an old, slightly… Read full post »
Teaching Leadership in Kindergarten?
We need to do something -- you, me. We can no longer sit here and let this problem go on. We need to have a long dialogue about the lack of leadership in the United States, and think very seriously about what each of us might do to help the future… Read full post »
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