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I Pray This Letter is Sent in Haste 28 Jul 2012 | 04:33 am
they went other places too — but this is where they sold the postcards Dearest Mother, Father, and Brother, I pray this letter is sent in haste [by the efficient Spanish National Postal Service] as I...
Wings 3 Jul 2012 | 01:10 pm
That’s what summer looks like around here.
Finished! 16 Jun 2012 | 07:11 am
Thrilled. Not as thrilled as William is with his stick, but pretty close. Do you know how you know when your epic, year-long, blog-destroying novel revision is finished? When your agent e-mails you ...
The Spirits of the Air 3 Sep 2011 | 05:14 am
If Blake is to be believed, the spirts of the air “live in the smells of fruit.” I kid you not. And even better, this all happens in autumn. Investigating this fruit-related issue, I have discovere...
The True Deceiver 30 Jul 2011 | 10:46 am
I have no idea how I ended up with Tove Jansson’s The True Deceiver in my book bag. (Tove Jansson is the author of the Moomintroll series, which is wonderful also, but in a different way.) Did I see ...
The Untailored Spy 23 Jul 2011 | 07:49 am
I adore George Smiley. You probably do too, because you probably have already read all the John leCarre books that feature him. Lucky me, I had not, which is why I chose two of them as my BlogLily S...
It’s Sleeping in My Memory 12 Jul 2011 | 11:12 am
you're breaking my heart, you're shaking my confidence daily For reasons unclear to me, as I was driving to work, some lines from Alexander Pope’s stupendously long poem, An Essay on Critic...
French Lessons: Champagne All Around 9 Jul 2011 | 10:44 am
A few years ago, I did a writing residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida. It was magical, that place. They had a room full of beach cruisers for us to ride — and the ocean wasn’t v...
The Beauty of the Bookmark 5 Jul 2011 | 06:50 am
ha! and you thought birthmarks were hot It was an arts & crafts kind of weekend, blog friends. Specifically, I spent an embarrassing amount of time making bookmarks and booklets and sizing up my sta...
Erased 1 Jul 2011 | 11:08 am
It is a sign of my robust mental health that I have taken in stride the fact that , for the last four or five days, the comments I leave on wordpress blogs never actually show up on those blogs. If y...
