Friday, December 11, 2015

Let's hear it for Hugh Grant movies

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Hugh Grant movies are a visual Prozac for me. With the exception of Cloud Atlas (which I liked, but for other reasons), they offer a cou...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

A life in patterns

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Cleaning out my mom's house this past summer, it surprised me how unsentimental I felt, even though it was the last time I was goin...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Women Only

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At first it was accidental. I began the year finishing Lila by Marilynne Robinson, then moved on to Mansfield Park (which, I a devoted ...
Friday, July 3, 2015

The unexpected flower

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For the last couple of years, I've pulled a weed that kept creeping up in my front yard bed. Why was it a weed? Because (ask any gardene...
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Thursday, May 7, 2015

The empty streets of Blogville

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When iGoogle went away, I lost track of the personal blogs I used to read on a regular basis. (It  was easy to see which blogs had been...
Saturday, April 11, 2015

Too much TV

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If only there was a Goodreads for watching TV. If so, I would be a top viewer. I watched a lot of television in the 11 months I went t...
Friday, April 3, 2015

Using the watermark feature in MS Word to distinguish your drafts

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Maybe most writers already know this, but I stumbled upon something accidentally tonight that is going to help me more easily distinguish ...
Monday, March 23, 2015

Is college necessary? (Part One of 1,000--an ongoing discussion)

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In my last post ( In the absence of leisure, where is art? ), I reinforced the conceit that people who are "cultured" (i.e., read ...
Thursday, March 19, 2015

In the absence of leisure, where is art?

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In the second installment of its series on the shrinking middle class ( The Devalued American Worker , December 15, 2014), the Washington...
Tuesday, March 3, 2015

The sameness of contemporary country music

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Forget what I said several years ago about liking country music . I finally persuaded E-girl to listen to it on the radio yesterday during a...