Hermione Granger and Maverick from Top Gun (a historical perspective on Halloween is here) Email this post
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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Pictures from a birthday and ordinary life
October 29, 2010 – 3:15 am
A few images from Grace’s birthday and life around here … Birthday morning: Grace’s favorite breakfast, cinnamon rolls After an all-day field trip at Plymouth Plantation (which I chaperoned) we had birthday cupcakes at school. I drove to the field trip with two other mothers from Grace’s class, and I think I may have scared [...]
The past, present, and future run through our lives, glinting in the light
October 28, 2010 – 3:40 am
I’ve written lately about how all the various people we’ve been exist inside the people we are now. I am frankly spellbound by the persistence of the past, by the way that carrying our scars and joys subtly alters our gait as we make our way through life. It is hard-won, and earned, the eventual [...]
A foot in two worlds
October 27, 2010 – 8:25 am
In September I saw my words in print for the very first time. The Princeton Alumni Weekly published an essay of mine called “A Foot In Two Worlds.” The essay explores one of my most fundamental and lingering fears, which is that by choosing to work part time and ‘stay home’ part time I’ve in [...]
Eight
October 26, 2010 – 3:30 am
Dear Grace, Eight years ago you made me a mother. EIGHT. How did this happen? I feel like it was yesterday but also a lifetime ago; I can’t remember my life without you in it. I can’t even really remember before you were a full-blown person. It seems like you have always been one of [...]
Birthdays
October 25, 2010 – 3:16 am
First birthday, 2003 Second birthday, 2004 Third birthday, 2005 Fourth birthday, 2006 Fifth birthday, 2007 Sixth birthday, 2008 Seventh birthday, 2009 Tomorrow … eight. How is it possible? Email this post
The relentless flux
October 24, 2010 – 9:14 am
“I have just begun to accept the relentless flux that is the condition of my life, of all our lives. Not young, not old; not betrothed, not alone; thinking back, looking forward; not broken, not quite whole anymore, either. But present.” -Dominique Browning, Slow Love From the lovely blog Slow Love Life (also by Dominique [...]
Pentimento of a person
October 22, 2010 – 2:39 am
Mary Oliver’s words about writing poetry with a pencil – so you could see the words that underlay the final words – made me think about pentimento, and I’ve been musing about that word ever since. I had my own experience of pentimento, sitting there in the Wellesley chapel, because sitting beside my mother and [...]
Thoughts on a sunset, and Mary Oliver
October 21, 2010 – 3:15 am
My mother and I went to hear Mary Oliver read last night. She read in the chapel at Wellesley College, which was full to capacity – hundreds of people, standing room only. Katrina had described Mary Oliver as “elfin” to me and she is. Tiny and sparkling at the same time, wearing plain black, she [...]
Half a Life
October 19, 2010 – 5:42 pm
I was privileged to attend a reading/discussion last night with Dani Shapiro and Darin Strauss, talking about the art of memoir. I had just finished Darin’s fantastic memoir, Half A Life, and we all know I’d walk to the ends of the earth for Dani. The event was fabulous – my super-incredible writer friend who [...]
