I’ve been struggling again with the point, or value, of this blog, especially since I have other areas of my life that could use this time — the writing, especially, could be directed towards some…
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Too bad — I’m falling behind, then playing catch-up, not able to give books the attention they deserve. Still, I’m not making any big claims with this blog, simply trying to keep a record of…
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Happy Birthday to my beautiful, sensitive, funny, ambitious, hard-on-herself, contagiously fun but also occasionally fierce, thoughtful, engaged and engaging daughter (no, I didn’t come close to capturing her, but that’s a quick sketch). This is…
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Our Christmas giving has become much more streamlined over the past few years, but I still fuss quite a bit over what to get our kids. While I want my gift to be appreciated and…
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About this time last year, I was just finishing a biography of Georgia O’Keeffe in which I was impressed and surprised and somewhat bemused to learn that whenever O’Keeffe bought something new, for her personal…
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