16 Days Until the Election “When will this end?” my friend Heather wrote. “Sometimes I feel my life is in suspended animation...or trapped in a pair of parentheses.” Inside parentheses is where … [Read more...]
Self-trusters and Self-Publishers
Carrie, who is both Today is Sunday, July 26, 2020, and the plague is still here. In June I had a birthday, which I was planning to spend alone in Woodstock. I had some soul work to catch up … [Read more...]
Young Man on the Edge of a Crowd. June 5, 2020
I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. --Samuel Johnson, “Biography,” Oct. 13, 1750 He was a lot bigger and taller … [Read more...]
Robb Forman Dew, 1946-2020
“The profound and the mundane are joined at the hip, and each one is dependent upon the human ability to recognize the other.” —Robb Forman Dew, Being Polite to Hitler (2011) Today is Saturday, May … [Read more...]
PLAGUE SCREED
screed 1. a ranting piece of writing 2. cement-like material laid onto a floor to create a smooth level (from Old English screade, a piece cut off; a shred.) Today is … [Read more...]
The silence beyond the silence in the plague
Today is Monday, May 11, 2020 It is quiet up here on the hill in Woodstock. Recently I realized it was too quiet and it took me a moment to figure out why. What was missing was the intermittent … [Read more...]
Through a glass darkly…May 3, 2020, Plague
“I can’t do this,” I told Evie, my therapist. “Look at the YouTube of Meryl Streep celebrating Stephen Sondheim’s ninetieth birthday,” Evie suggested. “Meryl has no makeup on and she’s wearing her … [Read more...]
My (Plague) Week
I am old enough to remember being a little girl old enough to read Eleanor Roosevelt’s “My Day” column, which was syndicated in the Asheville Citizen-Times six days a week. The president’s wife wrote … [Read more...]
Indignation
Today is Sunday, April 19, Plague 2020. Anthony Trollope attributed his thirty-third novel, The Way We Live Now, to “A loss of good nature in the fever of indignation.” His faithful readership … [Read more...]
Easter week, Plague 2020
Today is April 11, Holy Saturday in the church calendar. Passover began at sunset on Wednesday. My editor and her husband had their first Zoom Seder “with family from Copenhagen, Toronto, California, … [Read more...]
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