Lessons in Chemistry
Will you play Let's Pretend with me, for just a moment? Imagine you've fallen in love, so deeply, so head-over-heels, that you...
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notes from a teacher sabbatical
- Jun 22, 2022
Darling Girl, by Liz Michalski
Growing up, I was all about Disney. But there were a few I didn't like. I not only didn't prefer Peter Pan; I actively disliked him.
- Jun 17, 2022
Page and Spoon Firsts
✍🏻 The Challenge: Create a100-word piece of fiction in 24 hours that incorporates the assigned genre, action, and word.
- Jun 17, 2022
On Writing
Writing is a terribly lonely craft. I don't mean to use the word 'lonely' as if I were languishing. I don't cradle my laptop in bed,...
- Jun 16, 2022
Why I Hate Poetry...but Love Mary Oliver
I don’t like poetry. Sometimes it seems like poets are intentionally redacting their sentences to mask their meaning in a play for erudition
- Jun 14, 2022
The Sweet Life in Paris
Paris has held one of the fondest places in my heart. And David Lebovitz has written one of my favorite collection of essays on this city.
- Jun 9, 2022
Dark Matter, by Blake Crouch
Review: 🥄 🥄 🥄 🥄 4 spoons.
Pairs well with: Past regrets, ‘What if?’ games, and a splash of bedside theoretical physics.
- Jun 7, 2022
The Summer Place, by Jennifer Weiner
Review: 🥄🥄🥄 3 spoons.
Pair well with: Family drama, closeted skeletons, and sandy seascapes.
- Jun 6, 2022
The Woman in the Library, by Sulari Gentill
That very inner battle I'd been dreading came to a perfect point with The Woman in the Library.
- Jun 2, 2022
The Change, by Kirstin Miller
When I was a college student, a man assaulted me. I’d been walking toward a bus stop in broad daylight when I heard heavy footsteps...
- May 29, 2022
Reinvigorating Reading Rituals
Something’s been up lately. Perhaps you’ve noticed. I’ve been going about my life and daily business, hoping no one would comment. But...
- Apr 19, 2022
The Wilderwomen
United worked its usual bedlam, but I hardly noticed. I had my nose delightedly buried in Lang's latest.
Review: The Wilderness Women
- Apr 11, 2022
Greenwich Park
When I'm sick, my reading life gets tattered. The most ironic bit of it all is that reading seems like the perfect sedentary,...
- Apr 9, 2022
Labor of Love
This might not seem like it's about books or food, but it's actually about both. It affects our home library where all my books are...
- Feb 22, 2022
February Reading Wrap Up
She is articulate yet approachable, and her blog is a virtual balm to which I return whenever I feel depressed about bad writing.
- Feb 18, 2022
For Love of Books (and introducing a new part of the site)
I only learned what troglodyte meant because a guy I dated turned out to be a rotten jerk. When D. heard, she went full caps.
- Feb 11, 2022
Happy Books
But in times like these, I tend to be a little more circumspect with my book choices to protect my fragile, tottery bubble of joy.
- Jan 29, 2022
January Reads (some of them)
But after nearly a decade of limiting my writing life to curt emails to teachers about schedule changes, the Muse didn't visit as frequently
- Jan 1, 2022
2022 Reading Resolutions
Screw that this year. I just finished rereading Harry Potter because it makes me happy, and it was wonderful. More of that!
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