My dad was a Lutheran minister. Despite this, my family wasn’t particularly religious: we attended church but not always willingly, Mom grumbling about the cloud […]
Tag: people
Conference, reading, but mostly inhumanity.
Today is my big day at the North American Review writing conference: a one-hour master class and a reading (both done now) and a signing […]
An idle hour…literally, sixty minutes.
(I have used this pic before, but until this weekend I won’t have a chance to sort out what’s going on with images. Pretend it’s […]
Favorite things: The Swish of the Curtain.
My mom has never given away many secrets about herself. I do know she was the only child of a housewife and a man who […]
Favorite things: E.
E is moving to Svalbard in [counts on calendar] eleven? twelve? days. If you don’t know where it is, look it up: if the world […]
Four things make four-fifths of a post.
Elizabeth is here! E is in transit, halfway between her old life in Seattle and her new life in Longyearbyen, in Svalbard. She is here […]
Not wanting to see things.
My mentor is 95. A couple of months ago, he fell on ice. Miraculously, he broke nothing; even though it was bitterly cold outside, there […]
Colette and me writing.
(This was part of a scientific model from a Glasgow museum, in October.) So, it will be a surprise to no one that I am […]
