The Body at Rest. And in Motion.
"And if my life is like the dust--oooh, that hides the glow of the rose, what good am I? Heaven only knows." Thank you, always,...
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- Sep 8, 2012
- 2 min
With Linnea in the South of France
The wind blew hot today; it blew my skirt— it whipped my skirt, but not as at Les Baux. Back then the denim flapped a furious code into...
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- Sep 7, 2012
- 2 min
Breathing and Singing
The last thing I want to do after hearing a few hours of speeches from the DNC--or the RNC--is to be told what to think by the...
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- Aug 31, 2012
- 1 min
Blue Moon
Oh, and then I stepped outside--mid-laundry--and saw the second full moon for August. What a shimmer of blonde and silver, what cheek to...
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- Aug 31, 2012
- 2 min
Summer, Still
I do. I take umbrage at James Taylor's vapid lyric "The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time." It seems important to disagree...
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- Aug 28, 2012
- 1 min
Pesto: A Sonnet
Takes longer to write a sonnet than it does to make the great, green elixir......and longer still to savor a plate of it on...
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- Aug 24, 2012
- 2 min
The Water Cure
Just having bought this new/old house--what I've come to think of as a piece of history--a real vacation was out of the question. But...
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- Aug 20, 2012
- 2 min
The Tell-tale Shelves
At a used bookstore on New York's lower east side I was amused to see that the shelf labelled 'Erotica' was just one above the shelf...
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- Aug 17, 2012
- 13 min
Rooming with Emily (an untrue story)
She is understandably misinterpreted, an eccentric who likes her cocktails. This means she’s always at Maggie’s, the little bar we all go...
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- Aug 14, 2012
- 1 min
Sunflowers on My Desk
The sunflowers wave their heads around like girls and boys with unkempt hair and short attention spans. 'look, here! look, there!' they...
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- Aug 11, 2012
- 2 min
Dinner Music
Friends over for dinner last night--first official dinner party in the house, I suppose. It was a happy nod to A Pig in Provence and my...
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- Aug 11, 2012
- 2 min
Where Some of the Wild Things Are
I suffer from a predictable francophilia. It's true. I'm a sucker for the language. Not only does it sound good, it feels good to speak....
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- Aug 4, 2012
- 3 min
Don't Eff with the Ineffable
If there is anything missing in the vitriolic debates about the relative worth/worthlessness of religion, it’s the question of the...
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- Aug 2, 2012
- 1 min
Bats Amoré
Okay, not. Six weeks into this lovely, historic house and there have been bats. Five bats in three weeks, in fact. This troubled me so...