I keep taking pictures and then meaning to post them, and then the process of posting a photo via this old computer seems like too much of a chore for the limited time I have, and I don’t do it. …
What we’ve been doing on our summer vacation (scandalously photo-heavy) Read more »
My friend Lisa Unger’s new novel, Fragile, comes out today. I’m very much looking forward to reading it. The wonderful Caroline Leavitt did a great interview with her here, and Lisa did a guest post on Caroline’s blog here. The …
I guess July was the month of infidelity then, because I’ve finished the three books I set out to read and am moving on. I wish I could tell you that Madame Bovary was as wonderful as I remembered it …
The Summer of Infidelity ended sooner than expected Read more »
So, those birth photos I posted a while back… It wasn’t to shock you. And it wasn’t an urge to gratuitously share images of someone’s gloved hands inside my abdomen. Really. I thought the photos spoke for themselves. They did, …
Remember how the marauding neighborhood cats and their evil garden-shitting ways destroyed my spinach bed two seasons in a row? And how I swore it had put me off cats forever, that I would never again have a cat myself? …
I read Anna Karenina for the first time in 1992, in the second semester of my freshman year in college. I loved it, but was never moved to read it a second time. There are a lot of books in …
Happy fourth birthday, love bug! You’re my favorite super hero.
It’ll have to do, yeah? Plus, numbered lists please me. 1. I’m typing this on a very old, very slow iBook and it’s a drag. I’m grateful to have this pokey old laptop, a handmedown from a friend’s girlfriend, but …
Do you remember my review of Light Boxes and interview with the author, Shane Jones, that I did a while back? Well, I wasn’t alone in loving that novel. The original print run sold out completely. When the demand for …