by Cybele | Jun 6, 2024 | 2024, Strings & Stories
I went swimming this morning at the YMCA. I don’t swim every day but boy does it feel great to start the day out this way. I’m going to be heading to Italy tomorrow so I wanted to get one last swim in before my trip. I’m not an avid swimmer. In fact, I don’t actually...
by Cybele | Apr 28, 2024 | 2024, Strings & Stories
When I first saw Nadia Comaneci compete in the 1976 Olympic games I knew right away that I too wanted to be a gymnast. I went to sleep at night with images of Nadia’s routines playing over and over in my mind. I dreamed of doing aerial cartwheels, back...
by Cybele | Apr 21, 2024 | 2024, Strings & Stories
On a scale of 1 to 10,Where zero is no pain,1’s a hint,2’s a little,And 3 and 4 a tad more. By 5 and 6 there’s no mistake,Our attention is fully fixed.We’re moaning a lot,Happy we’re not,By 7 we’re calling it quits. By 8 we’ve...
by Cybele | Apr 14, 2024 | 2024, Strings & Stories
I’m sure there was a hospital in Sacramento that we could have gone to – that we should have gone to – but my best guess is that my dad simply didn’t want to be stuck two hours away from Berkeley when he had a class to teach the next morning at Cal....
by Cybele | Mar 14, 2024 | 2024, Strings & Stories
Four weeks ago, just a couple days after sharing my Belle of the French Quarter story, something happened that reminded me just how quickly our lives can change from one moment to the next. I had a bad fall coming down a flight of stairs, busted my face against a door...
by Cybele | Feb 16, 2024 | 2024, Strings & Stories
First published in the Summer 2021 isssue of The Exponent II. There used to be a painting of me on display in Jackson Square in front of the St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans. The artist named it “The Belle of the French Quarter.” I suppose I should have been...
