by Michelee Cabot | Jun 6, 2019 | The World As It Was
I’m sixteen again, in France. My father has been transferred to Paris. But he has war on his mind from his years in the Pacific theater, issues to set free. He needs to see where it all began to end. So. We’ve taken our little Fiat to Normandy, map in hand,...
by Michelee Cabot | Sep 6, 2018 | The World As It Was
HASHTAG METOO I’ve been on the fence about this movement, but recently I had a flash that crystalized my point of view. This is what happened to me, years gone by. I was fifteen, built voluptuously, liking the new body but at the same time wishing I hadn’t morphed. I...
by Michelee Cabot | Nov 8, 2017 | Flying, The World As It Was
BALLOONS, the Hot Air Kind “Up, up and away, in my beautiful balloon…” The Fifth Dimension musically wooed us to soar high and wide. Marilyn McCoo’s crooning pulled our hearts into the sky, triggering a yearning to throw off gravity, that force pithily called...
by Michelee Cabot | Sep 26, 2017 | Mexico Adventures, The World As It Was
Death in Alamos. Yes, like everywhere, some die in car crashes, and sadly some O.D. But some just choose to run out their days here, finding kindness and solace in gentle hands. And if you’re connected, a bartender will send a margarita to your bedside, something...
by Michelee Cabot | Sep 21, 2017 | The World As It Was
GOOD OLD TERRA FIRMA Oceans are bulging and swamping coastlines. Floods fill cities. Winds are whipping landscapes into flatness. Man is frail, and so are his works. Earthquakes crush what the winds don’t reach. Mankind struggles to help itself, wailing over its...
by Michelee Cabot | Aug 18, 2017 | Flying, The World As It Was
It was my first time to drop a jumper from my plane. To chunky balding Andy, a man with many jumps “under his belt” as they say, I sang out a hopeful “Adios, amigo”’ as he traded a Perfectly Good Airplane for leg-flailing insecurity, hurtling earthward through...
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