A week ago I turned on the TV in the morning, taking my chances, as I often do, that the news wouldn’t horrify or enrage me, as it tends to. The first image I saw was an aerial shot of water sweeping through a densely packed area. Japan was underwater. I did what I doContinue reading >>
Playing with crayons
Seized unexpectedly by the desire to guard my personal life, I am going to fastforward past the details of this afternoon, and we are going to arrive at the moment of discovery: I am sitting at a colleague’s desk, needing to kill time. There is a bag of pastel crayons on her desk. My joyContinue reading >>
Use Words When Necessary
I’m not really one for New Year’s Resolutions, but the one commitment I made to myself for the last calendar year was that I would write in a journal every night before I went to bed. It didn’t have to be long or profound. I figured that if I didn’t have something worth saying atContinue reading >>
Use Words When Necessary
I’m not really one for New Year’s Resolutions, but the one commitment I made to myself for the last calendar year was that I would write in a journal every night before I went to bed. It didn’t have to be long or profound. I figured that if I didn’t have something worth saying atContinue reading >>
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