Easter (for Carl)
This is delayed, but I still want to share it. Easter Sunday – April 8, 2012 was the first time I’ve celebrated Easter in years. Typically I discover the holiday because I’ve gone to the grocery store and am alarmed to find it closed, soREAD MORE
Too Much Happiness – Alice Munro
This book has perhaps my favorite title I’ve found in a long time because it is not only intriguing, but one that describes with simple clarity the breadth of the book. The title story is the last and most distant in theme, as it describesREAD MORE
Affliction – Russell Banks
The most striking thing about Affliction by Russell Banks is the unnerving way you are uncertain of what truth is the real truth. Banks threw me off quite a bit with different chains of events. There is a death with a shotgun, but I can’t tellREAD MORE
Work Trips
I love the work trip. I love home too, and despite how many people say to me that I will tire of it at some point, I will always take more work trips. I like traipsing through the airport with annoying bags and working onREAD MORE
I’m Home (when I’m with you)
Where I always want to be.
Boston again this weekend, and it’s like going home. Driving around on a stunning sunny day through Brookline with Raquel then going home for dinner with wine and the fading day, I wonder how it’s possible that this place thatREAD MORE
Flannery O’Connor – Everything That Rises Must Converge
It’s been far too long since I read Flannery O’Connor. As a writing student in college of course I read “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and I feel like part of a novella but I can’t remember and none of the titles ringREAD MORE
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
This is a book I’ve long seen on the shelf at bookstores and lingered on for a second. I also like the cover -shadows of two young girls smoking cigarettes – a boat, a city, all in black and white. In the end, I didn’tREAD MORE
What life is like here (on a long weekend)
There I am, lugging around a blue mesh laundry basket from floor to floor. It’s the third day of a three day weekend and I need to clean my clothes. So does everybody else in the building. I live in a building that incredibly hasREAD MORE
Norwegian Wood – A Book and a Movie
I have the same feeling about Haruki Murakami that I do about Salman Rushdie; I love and hate the writing equally. One moment I’m fascinated with the style, the next I find it dull. To be clear, I’m not comparing their writing or saying theyREAD MORE
Sandpoint – some basics
My hometown is Sandpoint, Idaho. It’s located in the northern panhandle of Idaho, wedged between Washington, Montana, and British Colombia. To get there from here, you have a few options. One is that you can drive rapidly for three days and cut through some ofREAD MORE
