Blogging is hard work
You know how I whine all the time that nobody reads my blog? I try to sound like I’m joking, but the truth is that it’s not that great as it might seem at first sight. It doesn’t really…
Lori
The beast
Putting on clothes in the morning can be a very unpredictable animal when you’re the mother of an infant. No time, no clean clothes, no energy. The baby gives me about ten to fifteen minutes to get ready in…
The small pleasures of office supplies: pen edition
I think a big part of my conviction that “I am a writer” came early in my childhood from my love for office supplies. Aren’t all big decisions based on important feelings like that? I see it in my daughter…
The nauseating beauty of my suburban fall
It’s a beautiful fall season this year. Some would call it even “ideal.” The tree leaves are turning slowly into sunset colors and on breezy days fill the air with fragrance and movement. The gardens continue to bear delicious fruit…
Stuff
I was thinking of starting a new regular column over here about thrift shopping and style and stuff. Because there is pleasure to be found in stuff, especially when it’s cheap and treasure hunted. Thrift shops make for a thrilling…
A woman’s writing vs. her children
I have been thinking about a recent debate regarding women authors and childbearing. Author Lauren Sandler wrote an article for The Atlantic professing that the secret to a successful writing life for a woman is to have only one child, giving as…
Back to blogging
I have big plans to revive this website and start spending more of my time to update it. I know it is what I should do. I mean, it’s about the only thing that I could relatively easily do to…
Took a break to create something new
Two children. Life is very different now. Sharing the love and parenting, dividing my time between my children and myself. It’s hard. It takes a while to adjust and resume life from where it stopped on the day with the…
Doesn’t seem fair to blame it all on old age
On the sexual abuse of minors by priests: “Cases of this kind are subject to the pontifical secret.” May 18, 2001. “In the 1970s, pedophilia was theorized as something fully in conformity with man and even with children.” December 20, 2010, On Islam,…
New year, old thoughts
Happy New Year, everyone (one?)! 2013. It already looks like it’s going to be a very full and interesting year. I am working on the print edition of Spell of Blindness and hoping to make that available really soon (as…