My Man-Crush Done Good
October 12, 2007
Filed in: The Way We Live Now
Call me an out-of-touch, over-the-hill, bleeding-heart, tree-hugging liberal, but I love me some Al Gore and always have, even way back before his VP gig. He’s like Clinton without the handsiness. Actually, he’s what a lot of us thought Clinton was.
I know he’s a little bit of a sanctimonious...
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Are You Sure?
September 30, 2007
Filed in: The Middle Ages, The Way We Live Now
Over at the Practically Perfect blog, Jennifer is remarking upon the phenomenon of magazines, now even men’s magazines, spending all their editorial energy telling their readers how to improve the little, improvable parts of their lives while pretty much ignoring both the Big Questions and the...
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Remnick! Call me!
September 18, 2007
Filed in: The Way We Live Now
Did you have a chance to read Jerome Groopman’s long and insightful article on colic in last week’s New Yorker?
I liked it.
What I really liked was the structure of the piece. First he introduced us a new mom with colicky twins, then he discussed the difficulties of trying to diagnose and...
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LOL Stands for “Labor of Love,” Right?
September 10, 2007
Filed in: The Way We Live Now
The Fall 07 Brain,Child is out and about in the world, meaning in print and now online. Yay.
I wrote an essay for the very first issue, back in I think it was 1902, when my ovaries were still wearing miniskirts and tank tops. Since then, I’ve been very, very slowly reeled in, till this last...
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On the Road, In Your Face
September 05, 2007
Filed in: The Way We Live Now
Speaking of 50ths, On the Road was published 50 years ago today. There have been about 2 bazillion words already published on the subject of the anniversary, so I’ll try to keep my remarks brief and personal.
Like many, many other readers of On the Road, maybe all of them?, I fell in love with...
