Expertina responds to questions about life, love, work, and relationships. Readers may submit questions to expertina@yahoo.com. Dear Expertina, For the first time in my life, I feel seriously depressed and enraged due […]
Dear Expertina
If You See Something, Say Something
“…that best portion of a good man’s life, His little, nameless, unremembered, acts Of kindness and of love.” William Wordsworth, from “Tintern Abbey” I was asleep in the aisle seat on […]
Driving Summer
Allies, Calling Out Your Own Straightness During #Pride Isn’t Helping
Don’t say “I’m not queer, but I’m an ally.” One of the best things about June is how social media becomes a rainbow-covered confection for #Pride. Queer folk and allies alike celebrate […]
My Time With Mona: Three Days Caring For A Dying Butterfly
by Arin Greenwood Three days ago I went outside my house in St. Petersburg, Florida, and found a butterfly struggling on my front path. She was flapping and trying to fly, but […]
6 Years Later, Remembrance in Four Parts
I. Even near the end of our time, my husband Jim tossed compliments around like confetti. He expressed his appreciation when I walked through the living room to empty his urinal, calling […]
My May-December Romance, a Dozen Years In
“If you marry an older man, one day you’ll be married to an old man,” a woman I met several years ago told me. She’d been married for nearly three decades to […]
The Cygnet Princess
My little ones are big ones now and although I dreamed (then) of these child free days, I find I miss them horribly. So I’ve been thinking of their […]
The Bow
Literary Foremothers: EBS and Me
The nineteenth-century writer Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard (called affectionately EBS by her admirers) is one of my literary foremothers and a favorite among those I claim. Her first novel, The Morgesons, published in […]
