Wednesday, March 29, 2006
This month’s issue of The Sun has a great short story in it, Essay #3: Leda and the Swan(pdf).
We came across this story in the 2005 edition of the anthology Best New American Voices (Harcourt), which collects the finest unpublished writing from college writing programs and workshops around the country. We weren’t the only ones [...]
A story in the Globe and Mail, 365 days, gazillions of readers discusses a trend of books — mainly nonfiction — written and published using a year as a basis for the books’ topics, whatever those subjects might be. The story credits Peter Mayle’s 1989 travel memoir A Year in Provence as the starting point, [...]
Whiny Kids Grow Up to Be Conservatives
A new study concludes that whiny, paranoid, insecure kids who crave authority grow up to be conservatives. Children who were confident, resilient and self-reliant grew up to be liberals. This is the second study that has concluded that adults’ political leanings may have more to do with a genetically-programmed [...]
As of this week, it’s a green light that C. can telecommute or work from the home office, wherever that may be, which means now that we have to make the decision to where exactly we wish to live. Over the past few years, I’ve checked out a lot of different places as potential residences, [...]
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
I don’t know how to talk about the war anymore. I’ve avoided everything about its “anniversary.” Bleak. That’s how I feel and have been feeling. But I’m not the only one, of course, and if I let bleakness drive me to total silence and avoidance, then what? I don’t want to know the answer to [...]
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
The first day of Spring (Monday, March 20) and we were having our usual walk in Hampton Park (which is located quite close to our home and which has a nice trail winding through it and allows you to acquire some mileage without too serious of a monotony factor).
I had my old camera along, an [...]
It’s like “reverse psychology” — each time I write that I’m having trouble writing fiction, I’m able to begin again. Since last entry here, in which I stated that writing fiction has been giving me no pleasure, I have been at work as if I switch was suddenly turned to on.I think I have managed [...]
After reading his fine Sleepwalker at Poetry Daily, I went in search of Robert Thomas to tell him how much I liked this poem, this frenulum, and because I am trying to remember to use blogging a little rather than always email, to expand the dialogue where it might work out to do so, I [...]
Just in:
Archipelago is live again. You can open Volume 9, Winter 2006, at
http://www.archipelago.org, and welcome. We’ve had a long, and, I think, fruitful hiatus. Now we offer you …
Go read Katherine McNamara’s very powerful
my Endnotes are “At Our Own Risk,” in which I tell you about how we spent our hiatus and what we learned: [...]
Have been thinking the past few days about Canada, about being in Montreal this time last year.
And even though it was freezing, and even though we got locked in our hotel room one evening, we said we’d want to go back. When it was warmer! Now, here’s an excuse. (Sure, sort of flimsy, but still [...]