by kathykastner | Oct 22, 2022 | explorations
Monday: I went to the library to renew my card and found myself asking the young woman with streaks of neon in her hair where I might find product. She looked up: “Um, ok, go for it, I guess” and grudgingly told me where to go. I was so crushed I didn’t even have the...
by kathykastner | Oct 22, 2022 | explorations
I always felt fortunate that I had as my ‘aging’ model, a mother who started tap dancing at age 66, and became associate TV producer at age 68. But my real insight into a joyous journey to the End came via a tweet chat. My mother was a force of nature. She...
by kathykastner | Oct 6, 2022 | explorations
Considering how much I enjoy things made of bits of things – faces made of pictures of faces, cats made of pebbles, Frida Kahlo made of buttons – one might think I’d naturally be drawn to puzzles. I’ve taken note of the puzzles my youngest daughter and my oldest...
by kathykastner | Oct 5, 2022 | explorations
My Kidney Stones In a way, I wish I’d been able to keep one – the stones that traveled from my kidney out my body. It would’ve been interesting to see whole the multi-toned, hard little beige and grey bits. However, I can’t say I was sad to feel them...