Summer Wish List Number Six

by | Jul 7, 2015 | Uncategorized

It is, I realize, July and it is already summer. I tend to post my Annual Summer Wish List a good bit earlier, sometime in June. Better late than never, people!   In general, I end up with a dizzying list that includes many things I may or may not ever do (that...

Wonder Kids

by | Mar 20, 2015 | Blogs, Sitting On The Baby, Uncategorized

  One thing that I found especially shocking when I became a first-time mama to a boy was the assumption that boys are genetically programmed to like trucks and balls and big creatures like dinosaurs. Some boys adore all of the above. Some don’t. The fact that my...

On Hurricane Island

by | Mar 4, 2015 | Standing In The Shadows

Ellen Meeropol dreamt up a horror. She took a charged anniversary, September 11th, a remote island in Maine, and an assortment of characters whose agendas are at odds (at the most polite best), but she doesn’t go for “at best” in her second novel, On Hurricane Island,...

One Word

by | Jan 4, 2015 | Standing In The Shadows

The stirrings of January and it’s apparently the year of the non-resolution, by which I mean people seem to be in exploration of the notion that we are enough as we are or less and more are ways to beat up on ourselves (read more about this on Abigail Rose...

Ending a Year

by | Jan 4, 2015 | Standing In The Shadows

Contemplative in front of the Parthenon in Nashville or just wondering why Nashville built one. Although I’ve begun to think—fleetingly, in momentary snatches of ideas akin to sketches not the whole picture—about New Year’s Resolutions,...