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What Miss Lena Prays For

Miss Lena goes into the dressing room, closes the folding three-way mirror, gets down on her knees, and prays. I wonder if she’s really praying for customers, as she tells me, or if she’s praying for bigger things, like peace in Yugoslavia, where she is from and which she calls Yugo, or maybe an end to homelessness. It seems to me you shouldn’t waste a prayer on attracting customers.

Sunbeams

And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and they were not ashamed.

Genesis 2:25

Hunger

Spam, reading material, C rations

Sunbeams

The way one eats is the way one works.

Czech proverb

Dinner

TV dinners, small yellow eggs, baked Alaska

Baby Fat

What I’d Most Like To Change

The constant nagging desire to change things; my fear of death; my inner victim into a happier, healthier being

Presumptions

So we were near the end of two and a half hours of long-distance conversation, an eternal friend and I, and we were finally getting around to the good stuff: the war between the sexes.

Good Medicine

An Unorthodox Prescription For Health

I can tell you everything you need to know about nutrition in one sentence. “Good nutrition consists of eating a wide variety of chemically unaltered foods.” That throws out 90% of what you’ll find in the grocery store.

Eating

Like a horse, to attain a state of high performance, to achieve a balance somewhere between the need and the desire