It’s 11:47 on a Saturday night. I am a single 35-year-old woman, watching a Paul Simon special on PBS, and I just paused it to go to the bathroom because I didn’t want to miss…
Date Archives June 2007
A few of my favorite things: a crush list for early summer
Bananas, the fruit. I can’t get enough of them and whenever I eat them I think of the main character in The Hotel New Hampshire whose name I cannot remember who eats bananas and runs…
Of human sexuality or, are you sure you’re not a lesbian?
The thing I love the most about my poetry class is going to Grumpy’s afterwards and debriefing with Polly and Peabo. Hanging out with smart, open-minded, honest women is the bomb, y’all. Today we spent…
‘There were no problems except where to be happiest’
A few weeks ago at the behest of my Voxxy friend Daby, I listened to Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast. I told him that I refused to actually read it, because I wasn’t sure that…
Words written on a piece of paper that’s been on my coffee table for seven months
This piece of paper has been sitting on my coffee table since November when I finished reading Motherless Brooklyn. Every person who comes over picks up the paper, tries to read it and then asks…