Writing the good read
Earlier this month, I wrote about my new-found respect for Phillip Lopate, regarded as one of the best living writers of thepersonal essay. I wanted to expand my knowledge of the genre — and I had never thought of it as that before, but as the way some writers opine on a variety of subjects…
I’m going to start a list, compiled from my much-too-frequent interactions with physicians and other healthcare professionals, of things that these professionals say and do that they probably shouldn’t. Some sound funny, but are still potentially problematic. * When you go see your OB/GYN before becoming sexually active after a break, and you ask the…
As I play Words with Friends — I have about a dozen games going at any one time — bystanders often hear me muttering the same phrase over and over. It’s such a common refrain that Mr. Right Now says it should be on my headstone. Well it should be a word*. I have other ideas…
Exactly 16 years ago, I was three weeks before my due date at a weekly check with my doctor. I told her that the following Tuesday would be a great day for me to have my child. It would work for out-of-towners coming for the bris (ritual circumcision that Jewish boys undergo at 8 days)….
You could die before you get through all the good things on the internet, right? Isn’t it nice to have someone like me tell you what’s really not to be missed? The blogathon gives me the chance to find some real gems. Today’s group includes five food and garden blogs that I love, I subscribe…
Full disclosure: I haven’t yet read What Do Women Want, this week’s book. However, I have read articles, excerpts, reviews, and listened to interviews with the author, Daniel Bergner. It’s on my nightstand awaiting its turn. But all that exposure to it has got me thinking. Naturally, my thinking demanded an audience. The book looks…
I fulfilled a dream of many years yesterday and saw Garrison Keillor and his cohorts perform A Prairie Home Companion for NPR. I’ve loved Keillor as a writer since I was in college in the 1980s. I didn’t get into the show until later. Some of my friends find it too slow and languorous. Maybe…
This picture of me and my mom and her hairpiece? I was as close to birth when that was taken as I am now to being 50. And I’m totally cool with getting old because the alternative to aging isn’t really something I’m anxious to experience. So happy birthday to me. Go out and have…
Every year during the Blogathon get to explore the word stylings of writers I’ve never read. In some lights, this could be a burden: I have limited time and so many good words to read. But in another light — the one I use to illuminate my life — there can’t be enough good writing…
I used to have a calendar that on the June 30 square said, “Half the year is gone. Have you reached half your goals?” Kind of passive aggressive for paper office supplies, right? As I mentioned a couple posts ago, my life has been a bit out of my control lately, and I haven’t been…