This is not the first time I’ve turned off cable TV. As a first year law student living alone, I knew I could not be trusted with unlimited access to TV. Thank heaven I had dial up internet as opposed to something faster or I would never have graduated. I lived alone in an antebellum...
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I’ve felt twelve kinds of love for Lisa Hannigan’s music since hearing her with Damian Rice years back. Her new solo album Sea Sew is love, lovely. She gave a great interview about her creative process and the album on NPR that you can read here. The liner notes include a photo of all of...
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In reading about the writing process for Away We Go, I learned that the married screenwriters of the film {Dave Eggers & Vendela Vida) don’t have internet at home. Dave Eggers was quoted in this interview as saying, “For us, to be able to concentrate, we don’t have internet at home, for example, because we...
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I watched this TED speech from Elizabeth Gilbert and different things about it keep tumbling around in my mind like fluffy clothes in the dryer. —— My guy bought the new Andrew Bird album Nobel Beast -we are fans- but this album is really something. I love the interview that aired about it this week...
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Adding to my long list of Things I Wish I Had Written… …this enchanting story in yesterday’s New York Times about a boy in a restaurant. It is just lovely. …and this beautiful dedication from Marion Rust’s book Prodigal Daughters. She writes, “I hope someday you [her children] take this one off the shelf and...
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This essay, The Give and Take of Grief, by Michael Newland featured this week on This I Believe is so powerful, I had to steady myself against a wall when I heard it. With phrases like, “He looked at me, like a dolphin surfacing to look at a fisherman, and then re-submerged when the team...
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My new post for Skirt!
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I’ve been posting a lot about music lately. I think it’s because music is helping carry me through the day, keeping me in my chair in my office (which my daughter calls a castle) doing what I’m supposed to be doing while my flowers are blooming and my daughter is going down a slide in...
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Yesterday’s snowflake reminded me of a Michael Longley poem called Snow Water. In the poem Longley, a “fastidious brewer of tea, a tea Connoiseur as well as a poet, ” asks the reader to bring him the gift of snow water to make his tea on his 60th birthday. You can listen to him read...
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When I started this blog about 1 year ago on my 30th birthday, I was keeping a promise to myself to write more and trying to break the sometimes isolating experience of being a parent. I wanted to find and share creative endeavors that can get lost to sleep deprivation. This year, inspired by the...
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