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Endings 26 Aug 2013 | 02:54 am
I have always struggled with the endings. Sunday evening always felt hard. The end of the weekend’s relative safety, and the prospect of another day in school. All the homework deadlines rushing at –...
Thank you from the Island 24 Aug 2013 | 11:22 pm
At some point this morning, as I drank my coffee on the porch, I thought of a whole blog post that would be big and analytical and cause all kinds of debate. But then, after getting the house ready fo...
Book Browsing 21 Aug 2013 | 06:58 pm
The other day, before seeing Blue Jasmine (which I found completely depressing) I went shopping in Book Hampton, a small indie. I didn’t have anything in particular that I wanted to buy. I was happy t...
Focus 16 Aug 2013 | 09:23 pm
It’s mostly a great privilege to keep friends and traditions over the course of one’s life. No, strike that – it’s TOTALLY a great privilege. But it has its emotional dangers. Riding my bicycle on a ...
Alternative Self 15 Aug 2013 | 07:16 pm
This post is dedicated to “Dr. Art Levine” of Los Angeles. Wordpress informs me that a good portion of the people who landed on my blog were searching for him and they found this instead. I’m going ...
Tough Day Still Wrote 14 Aug 2013 | 09:53 pm
Writers often speak of the need to put your tush in the chair and WRITE. Clearly this is inarguable. No writing can happen if…um…you’re not writing. I guess the problem is that even if you force your...
Rain, Rain come and get me! 13 Aug 2013 | 08:21 pm
Third day of being a writer. Third day of rain. Are the dark clouds of my inner thoughts expanding out into the universe in such a literal way?? Sorry folks. One difference: Today I was really HAPPY t...
The Damp Mossy Woods 12 Aug 2013 | 07:45 pm
I promised myself that this year I would again, devote a portion of my two week vacation to being a writer. So here I am. Bluffing my way into productivity, I hope. Last year I discovered that the onl...
Thoughts on Crazy Hat Day 9 Aug 2013 | 05:44 pm
It’s a grey morning in the suburbs, but my son’s head bloomed with not one but TWO crazy hats in a glorious ice-cream-cone of childhood fashion sense: my sweet sandy-haired nine year-old, under the gr...
The Alternative 31 Dec 2012 | 12:54 am
THE ALTERNATIVE was a newspaper that I started in the 12th grade, with my friends Jeanmarie Condon and Mark Kerner because we were frustrated with the official school paper and wanted to make somethin...
