Tomorrow, I will get to spend part of my day buying books (and maybe even records) and part of my day lunching about with a very good friend. That has made today immeasurably better than yesterday. My workout this morning was … unwelcome … but, I managed to do most Read more…
Today, I took the day off from all three jobs, and it was delightful. M made his fancy tangelo-challah french toast, and I made serious knitting progress on my next sweater. I also busted into the garage and unpacked 3 boxes of books and a box of miscellany. Then, I Read more…
The Other Walk: Essays By Sven Birkerts Birkerts’ collection of essays, The Other Walk, is a compendium of acts of contemplation and the digressions of the mind. Just reading it has inspired the last couple of posts here on Roaming Cowgirl, where I have allowed a memory or an associative Read more…
The Object Parade: Essays By Dinah Lenney When Dinah Lenney says, on page 20 of The Object Parade that “Every home should have a piano” I thought, this narrator and I will have little in common. She says this at the end of a short essay about the baby grand Read more…
The Way We Weren’t By Jill Talbot I mentioned this to Jill on Twitter, but one of the most amazing aspects of reading her memoir, The Way We Weren’t, was how much I related to her daughter, Indie. Indie and I have not had particularly similar childhoods; I moved between Read more…
First of all, I have several to-be-read stacks. There are two shelves in the bedroom, both over full (and that doesn’t count the poetry books above them, mixed in with the ones I have read, that I need to read, like Richard Siken’s Crush and that Mary Ruefle and Natalie Read more…
I love reading the writing of people I know. It’s not just because I’m stoked to know what they care most about, there’s the added dimension of camaraderie and a sense of community, like WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER. Someone recently suggested, and not directly mind you, that writing positive Read more…
TL; DR verdict: RECOMMENDED I will admit that it took me forever to read this book for very petty reasons. See also: Reading the winning poem of a contest I lost. However, just as not reading that winning poem would be childish and wrong and a missed opportunity, so was not Read more…
Man. The two toughest things to figure out overseas: toilets and internet. At least so far, the toilets have been totally expected and intuitive. It has proven to be prohibitively expensive for me to get internet out of town. In town, I’m using a crazy old computer in 30 minute Read more…
Have you ever read My Pretty Pony by Barbara Kruger and Stephen King? It is an expensive art book that I COVET (and will someday possess), but more importantly, it is a book about time: how it is chimeric and how it will deceive you if you don’t keep a Read more…