by Sandy Lingo | Dec 13, 2015 |
Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.~Ed Koch What must it be like to be them? The woman in saggy mom...
by Sandy Lingo | Dec 2, 2015 |
It’s sort of like a pet, except you feed it electricity and it eats dirt. It’s clean . . . and it cleans. It’s an iRobot Roomba, a vacuum cleaning robot. Roomba (we call her “Roo”) was supposedly a gift for me. It is true that I hate, hate to vacuum. You’d...
by Sandy Lingo | Nov 16, 2015 |
“Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.” ~Mohsin Hamid At a certain age (mine) you begin to read obituaries. And you develop a systematic separation procedure to put as much distance between you and the deceased. On a good day,...
by Sandy Lingo | Nov 4, 2015 |
Here Comes the Bride, 1972 First came the dress. My mother sat on the other side of closed doors as two salesladies positioned me on a pedestal, arranged the train, and lifted the short blusher veil over my (supposedly) virginal face. The ladies threw open the...
by Sandy Lingo | Oct 8, 2015 |
“He’s the one,” Allison announced three years ago. These are three words I had never heard my 31-year-old daughter say. I wasn’t surprised, really, because during the week that “the one” visited, my usually attentive daughter didn’t answer e-mails, texts, or phone...
