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Tag Archives: books
The Expatriate’s Itch
In the early hours of the morning I woke not sure of where I was. Italy? Kyoto? Croatia or some other place I once lived long enough for the exotic to become familiar? Sometimes I feel transported in time and … Continue reading
An Inspiring Book
Sometimes a book just gets under your skin. This is one of those books for me. Behind the Beautiful Forevers is almost like a hybrid of fiction and non-fiction. Of course these are real people and a real world that Katherine … Continue reading
About Grief
During the run of Joan Didion’s Year of Magical Thinking in June, I was invited to write a guest post on grief for the Westport Country Playhouse’s blog. Here it is: A story not so different than my own June … Continue reading
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Tag Sale
We need a new lawnmower and could also use some outdoor furniture. So yesterday, we went to tag sales. Fascinating, and at times, a little ghoulish walking through stranger’s homes, rifling through piles of a lifetime of belongings. Particularly weird … Continue reading
Books to Show Me the Way
I am reading two books that happened to be reviewed in this week’s New York Time’s Book Review. Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories by Megan Mayhew Bergman and Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by … Continue reading
Time
Daylight Savings feels like a farewell to this remarkably mild winter. I confess to being a little confused about why we muck about with time this way – something about children waiting for school buses in the dark not being … Continue reading
Working II
One of my ‘good-job’ barometers is that I should feel at least a slight rush of excitement upon arriving to work. In the late 1980s I was a Public Information Assistant at the United Nations in New York. A classy … Continue reading
Writer’s Block
This morning, I’m stumped. I write a sentence, start an idea and delete. Inspiration eludes me. I try to be disciplined about posting to this blog at least once a week and usually, something is percolating by the time I … Continue reading
Changing Seasons, Stocked Shelves
Foliage-drama is lacking this autumn. Summer droughts and rains, hurricane Irene are all reasons cited for this ‘blah’ fall. Even the usual spectacular reds of my maple tree have yet to appear, the leaves dropping more brown than red. But … Continue reading
Stories to Tell
For ten years now, I have been a board member of a group that works to give little libraries to children who might otherwise not own a single book. The goal is to give at least 10 books over as … Continue reading