Donna Debs
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Upside Down: Reaching out, or not, this holiday
I’m hunting an old boyfriend on the internet. Blame it on the holidays. In addition to the stress, fear, exhaustion, expectation, excitement, and disappointment — the holidays also bring a re… → Read More
Upside Down: Over the moon together
I have a guy who needs convincing. Him: No, no way, nope. Me: Oh, come on. We’ll get up at 4 a.m., sunrise already in some parts of the world. We’ll throw our coats over our pajamas and take a tiny… → Read More
Upside Down: Who’s your doppelganger – Cleopatra? – The Mercury
“You’ve lost an inch,” is not an expression you ever want to hear. Not if you’re a seamstress, a worm, a tightrope walker in the middle of a performance. Not if you’re a vertically challenged woman… → Read More
Upside Down: Donald Sutherland comes to the suburbs
Donald Sutherland has always been a surprising leading man. He’s handsome, but in an interesting way, not a pretty boy. He’s sexy, but it creeps up on you, he doesn’t flaunt. He’s deep, what woman … → Read More
Upside Down: Rihanna, eat your heart out
If you’ve been following the comings and goings of the superstar singer Rhianna lately, you know she’s pregnant. Very pregnant. It’s hard not to notice. Her gorgeous face and big belly have been gr… → Read More
Upside Down: Who needs talent to sing?
I can’t sing. Sure, I can open my mouth and belt out a few tuneless lines, but I always assumed singing meant more than a chaotic shrieking with no resemblance to the song Alexa is blasting on the … → Read More
Upside Down: Turn to the great yogis to manage ‘those people’ – The Mercury
It’s that glorious time of year when we finesse how to get through the festive season with a minimum amount of pain and suffering, and a maximum amount of calm and joy. It happens every year. We pa… → Read More
Upside Down: Zoom can be very enlightening
It sounded like this at my house, after trying to start a yoga class I’ve been teaching for 25 years, now on Zoom. Me (talking out loud): Why isn’t this working? Did I set up something weird, did I… → Read More
Upside Down: The supersecret signals of love
Small talkers know something the rest of us don’t. It may only be a shred of something -- some useless information -- yet still, these everyday gabbers do spread a → Read More
Upside Down: The supersecret signals of love
Small talkers know something the rest of us don’t. It may only be a shred of something -- some useless information -- yet still, these everyday gabbers do spread a → Read More
Upside Down: The supersecret signals of love
Small talkers know something the rest of us don’t. It may only be a shred of something -- some useless information -- yet still, these everyday gabbers do spread a → Read More
Upside Down: The supersecret signals of love
Small talkers know something the rest of us don’t. It may only be a shred of something -- some useless information -- yet still, these everyday gabbers do spread a → Read More
Upside Down: A tale of revenge
Since we both recently read the best revenge story of all time, "The Count of Monte Cristo," I feared Ray would plot his payback after he learned I hit his → Read More
Upside Down: A tale of revenge
Since we both recently read the best revenge story of all time, "The Count of Monte Cristo," I feared Ray would plot his payback after he learned I hit his → Read More
Upside Down: Help, I'm shopping again
With the summer upon us and the sense we’re over and done with everything, that everything has got to change, I found myself after a year and a half facing → Read More
Upside Down: Help, I'm shopping again
With the summer upon us and the sense we’re over and done with everything, that everything has got to change, I found myself after a year and a half facing → Read More
Upside Down: Let's leave the Neanderthals at home
When you spend a lot of time with your housemates, as we did during the worst of Covid, there comes a time when the two of you, or all of → Read More
Upside Down: Let's leave the Neanderthals at home
When you spend a lot of time with your housemates, as we did during the worst of Covid, there comes a time when the two of you, or all of → Read More
Upside Down: What we're talking about...
“All we ever talk about are the same things,” said a friend. “It’s the pandemic, politics, gun violence, racism, culture wars, immigration -- none of it any fun. We used → Read More
Upside Down: What we're talking about...
“All we ever talk about are the same things,” said a friend. “It’s the pandemic, politics, gun violence, racism, culture wars, immigration -- none of it any fun. We used → Read More