Ecstatic Adventures of the Exuberant Bodhisattva

Every time your vagina bleeds, it means that you won’t become a mother.  My mother hated getting her period.   I remember the sobbing, the ...

One of the things that Montessori children take off the shelves is called “Boxes and Bottles.”  They take a container off of the shelf and ...

This afternoon, an eighteen-month old said "Potty" and I put her on the toilet and she took a shit.  It was one of the most satis...

Vile shrieks emerged from the kitchen. Incomprehensible animal sounds of deep guttural rage.  Everyone seated in my grandmother’s sun room...

Winter this year seems so long that I no longer remember whether or not Christmas happened.  And yet, how could I have forgotten?  Christm...

My career as a kept woman seems like a lifetime ago.     This is the dress I became a kept woman in  When I first thought of the t...

When I was growing up, my mother used to lose her keys constantly.  She would cry and say, “I’m such an idiot.”  My father was never very ...