Posts in category: Meredith Reiniger

By Meredith Elizabeth Reiniger I am old. This I know. If ever I doubt my Condition of Extreme Elderliness, I can summons a computer form requiring select-your-birth-date. Scrolling down seventy-three choices until I reach 1944 assures me that I originat ...

By Meredith Elizabeth Reiniger I tipped over. That is not a good thing. I had successfully mowed, watered, and then, despite quickly depleting energy, I turned toward the 10 foot, 6.5 inch tall WEEDS whose very existence in my garden had raised my blood ...

By Meredith Elizabeth Reiniger Recently, Spit Analysis confirmed that I have 1,247 DNA relatives. Assuredly, I promise to not-send birthday cards to any of those hundreds, just like I ignore the birthdays of my known, occasionally face-to-face, reachabl ...

By Meredith Reiniger My Vacation: I sprained two fingers lifting a foam Memory Pillow. Road trip: destination PRIDE parade in Washington DC. 5:23 our painfully early departure. Sparkle Pup aimed my gleam-clean she-loves-them Buick. Glitter B navigated w ...

A funny thing happened on my way to the stirrups. No horse required. History, 1962: in freshperson biology, I was given a frog. I named my frog. I like to name all my things. (Such a time, I named my fanny-cheeks Bessie Minnie and Emma Jane, after my mo ...

A funny thing happened on my way to the stirrups. No horse required. History, 1962: in freshperson biology, I was given a frog. I named my frog. I like to name all my things. (Such a time, I named my fanny-cheeks Bessie Minnie and Emma Jane, after my mo ...

I have taken pictures of my kittens. Actually, picturessssssssssss. Shug Avery and Alice Walker every which way… sitting IN a basket, suitcase, empty cardboard any-shape-any-size box, drawer, sink, slipper, flower gardens; UNDER the tablecloth; ON a wind ...

Alexa, tell me a joke. “How many surrealists does it take to put in a light bulb? Two. One to hold the giraffe and one to put brightly-painted power tools in the bathtub.” As an elder, I do not Roll On the Floor Laughing. Instead I do an interpretive ROF ...