Play it as it Lays

From my mother I inherited my looks and a tendency to migraine. From my father I inherited an optimism which did not leave me until recently

From my mother I inherited my looks and a tendency to migraine.

It is one more version of why does a coral snake have two glands of neurotoxic poison. Kate has soft down on her spine and an aberrant chemical in her brain.

Just so. I am what I am. To look for “reasons” is beside the point

I try to live in the now and keep my eye on the hummingbird

I was raised to believe that what came in on the next roll would always be better than what went out on the last

From my father I inherited an optimism which did not leave me until recently.

Sleep was essential if she was to be on the freeway by ten o’clock

faded rattan chaise

If she was not she lost the day’s rhythm, its precariously imposed momentum.