When my own daughter was old enough, I began reading Dickens stories aloud to her, and of courseA Christmas Carolwas among them. I read the whole of it to her in one evening, stopping occasionally to compose myself. She and I went to see a beautiful theatrical production of it in Seat...
When I was growing up I did everything I could to hide what was odd and different in myself, letting out the funnier aspects in measured doses with my friends but keeping most tucked tightly in some inner compartment of my being. (To some extent I still do. You probably do too.) I...
and of courseA Christmas Carolwas among them. I read the whole of it to her in one evening, stopping occasionally to compose myself. She and I went to see a beautiful theatrical production of it in Seattle when she was a girl, just as my mother and I had seen multiple wonderful versi...
And after a few weeks of thinking about it, I started scouring google earth to plan each leg, measured how far it was, started a blog, and before I knew it, I logged my first 8 miles between Wallops Island and the Chincoteague causeway. At first, I wanted to paddle around the Delma...
personal experience, number of partners, or current relationship. The idea that someone who has sex as part of her job should be totally without preferences about partners, fear about unwanted encounters, or concern or say over who uses her body, is repugnant. And using such a defense in cou...
Her mother had been a military wife for the whole of her youth and Amelia knew she measured the time in months and years, units of deployment breaking up the forward momentum of her life. But Amelia couldn't change any of that for her, and Amelia was happy now. Two times before she'...
“creative” than building most of one’s oeuvre out of stacked boxes and lines, likeMondrian, or collages, likeBraque, or simplifying figures to their essential shapes and distorting them, likeMunchor Picasso orDaliorLichtenstein. But reducing creativity to such simplistic, easily measured or ...
When the woman of 1966 worked too hard and felt depressed over her inability to get ahead on the job, whether at home or out in the world of paid employment, what could she do to find the vim and vigor she needed to get through the day when her get-up-and-go and gotten up and ...