This is going to be one of those brain dump posts, or, as my friend Paul calls it, the Ulysses post, which make me sound literary and talented, not unfocused and neurotic, which is how I feel today.
Something unexpected happened when I became a parent – well, a lot of things actually, as having a [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 28, 2008
James Joyce and I Were Born on the Same Day
October 18, 2008
Are You Carnal or Courtly?
Anne Fadiman, in her essay “Never Do That to a Book” (Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, 1998), discusses her theory that there are two types of book owners/readers. She believes there are the courtly lovers of books, for whom the “book’s physical self is sacrosanct,” and the carnal lovers of books, for whom [...]
October 11, 2008
In Addition to Everything Else, I Think I Need a Personal Shopper. Subtitle: Can She Get Any More Shallow? No.
I don’t know how this happened, but I have no clothes. I mean, I have a lot of shorts and T-shirts and sweatshirts. So if I lived in Hawaii and worked from home as a freelance writer or envelope stuffer I’d be fine. But I have no clothes suitable for weather colder than 70 degrees. [...]
October 4, 2008
Play It Again, and Again, and Again
I am wondering if anyone else does this. You get stuck on one song and you listen to it over and over and over again. I’m not talking about hey, I like that song, one more time, will ya? I’m talking about listening to one song 20, 30, 50 times in a row. Over and [...]
