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Cleaning My Closet: March

March 19, 2018
by Out Alliance ColumnistsEmpty ClosetMeredith Reiniger

 by Meredith Elizabeth Reiniger             Marching together. Celebrating wommin. We must. Will.              We are celebrating Wommin’s Herstory Month. Annually, during the 31 days of March, we have our ceremonial re-viewing of wommin’s work, followed ...

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Cleaning My Closet: #MeToo

December 8, 2017
by Out Alliance ColumnistsEmpty ClosetFeaturedMeredith Reiniger

by Meredith Reiniger 1. The waiter unfurled the large cloth napkin, pulled it across my lap and pushed his hand into my crotch. 2. A male, selling shoulder bags, suggested I try one, and as he draped it over my shoulder, he slid his hand down the strap an ...

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Cleaning My Closet: Pre-Mortality

November 3, 2017
by Out Alliance ColumnistsEmpty ClosetMeredith 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 ...

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Cleaning My Closet Part 1: My Body: A Dirge For Piano And Drums

August 23, 2017
by Out Alliance ColumnistsEmpty ClosetMeredith Reiniger

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 ...

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CLEANING MY CLOSET: SPIT, the sequel

July 24, 2017
by Out Alliance ColumnistsEmpty ClosetMeredith Reiniger

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 ...

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Cleaning My Closet: Capital Pride 2017

July 6, 2017
by Out Alliance ColumnistsEmpty ClosetMeredith Reiniger

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 ...

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Cleaning My Closet by Meredith Elizabeth Reiniger: LADY PARTS

May 2, 2017
by Out Alliance ColumnistsEmpty ClosetMeredith Reiniger

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 ...

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Cleaning My Closet by Meredith Elizabeth Reiniger: LADY PARTS

April 27, 2017
by Out Alliance ColumnistsEmpty ClosetMeredith Reiniger

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 ...

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CLEANING MY CLOSET By Meredith Elizabeth Reiniger: PIX

April 3, 2017
by Out Alliance ColumnistsEmpty ClosetMeredith Reiniger

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 ...

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CLEANING MY CLOSET by Meredith Elizabeth Reiniger: LIGHTBULBS

March 3, 2017
by Out Alliance ColumnistsEmpty ClosetMeredith Reiniger

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 ...

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