Listmania!
December 10, 2007
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
1). Like every other publication this time of year, the New York Times is full of lists (stories, as T and I like to say, that write themselves, leaving busy reporters free to shop and cook and decorate like the rest of us).
I have to confess, my heart was in my mouth when I saw The 53 Places...
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Getting/Spending/Laying Waste
October 26, 2007
Filed in: The Home Front, The Middle Ages
I loathe when people tell you how busy they are. I’m like, save it, Sistah, we’re all busy, it’s a busy world out there.
Having said that, it’s been a rough patch of busy-ness here in Swellville, and not the we-sure-are-living-full-lives kind, more the slog-till-you-drop kind.
Which is maybe...
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Love O Careless Love
September 20, 2007
Filed in: The Home Front, The Middle Ages
Did anyone else catch Donald Hall’s poem in today’s Writer’s Almanac?
He’s got a line that pretty much sums up my philosophy on marriage (if I could be said to have such a thing):
We learned how to love each other
by loving together
good things wholly outside each other.
Exactly.
Also...
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Tag. You’re It
September 13, 2007
Filed in: The Home Front, The Middle Ages
UPDATE: As I’m sure you’ve already guessed, this weekend was transfigurative. Friday I was a girl who hated yard sales because she was an insecure snob. Tonight I am a woman who hates yard sales because they suck. Never again, dear readers. Never. Again.
Related: anbody interested in four...
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Thank You Joanne
August 26, 2007
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
In November of 1999, a FedEx truck pulled up to our old house in Beverly and delivered a late birthday present to C, who had just turned 6. I stashed it away, mistakenly thinking it was an early Christmas present.
But late one afternoon--as we were playing in our dark, skanky basement where W,...
