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This week I watched the television show The Bachelor. I’d never seen an entire episode before. This week I also had the opportunity to see the new movie about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. It is a long time since I was made to recall all the small and large harmful behaviors that were … Read more
This is what writers do. I bought a new desk chair six months ago during a brief period of optimism. Now I can spend even more time sitting in front of my computer screen. My flattened-over-time rear end perches upon the black leather. My elbows rest comfortably upon the perfect height of the armrests. Hands … Read more
I am girding my loins for an adventurous quest. It is a quest to locate a book containing a short story I remember vaguely yet persistently from childhood. For some reason, more than fifty years later, I am convinced this story had an important influence upon me. I need to find it. I feel compelled … Read more
I like to read happy books. This was not always true. I used to love novels about quirky off-beat characters. I devoured books by Audrey Niffenegger, Saul Bellow, Amy Chan, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and John Irving, to name a few. They were and still are beautiful, strange and evocative. These books offer the same magic … Read more