Beautiful… Breakage I go down to the edge of the sea. How everything shines in the morning light! The cusp of the whelk, the broken cupboard of the clam, the opened, blue mussels, moon snails, pale pink and barnacle scarred— and nothing at all whole or shut, but tattered, split, dropped by the gulls onto [...]
Gorgeous writing — the last line slays me: “Whenever he is discouraged, I tell him that if I can survive on three continents, then there is no obstacle he cannot conquer. While astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that [...]
Learned a new word today, which perhaps I should’ve known, that I felt I’d been waiting all my life to come across: bouma. A short time ago I was using this line on my business site: “People don’t read”. If she ever saw it, this surely earned the ire of my former boss, the copy [...]
An essay is like a Manhattan apartment. Every piece of furniture needs to have at least two functions and everything has to fit in a certain amount of space and there’s no messing around, there’s no room for the snow-globe collection. It’s just so compact and efficient. And I wanted to spread out a little [...]
Welcome back from the hiatus. Redesigned — again — with no fewer than 10 domains pointed at it, and almost 10 years old. Have been going through a lot of my old stuff and realizing how much I miss writing about things other than politics, about the poison that’s filled the newswires. I truly had [...]
Have felt ideas stewing in recent days; more than that, the certain brand of energy needed and driving me to write. What? A story! Not my forte as far as I can tell. Am cursed with need to minimize, to contract text. Distill. Good instinct for most editorial work, but not so much for the [...]