I’d love to keep the excuse-making to a minimum, but I will tell you that Pater and I enjoyed a long bike ride on Friday; I spent a glorious day with a friend visiting from…
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I’ve finished reading the “Childhood” section of Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend for the second time, and I’ve begun my post on it, likely to be up by Sunday, but I want to pause and ask what…
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You are so right! That Is a Selfie-in-a-Bathroom. And in a Public Bathroom. No, worse, it’s in a very spartan Public Bathroom in a park, sporting a metal (so less vandalisable than glass) mirror. Why, why,…
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Surprising how much fun you can have at Nana and Granddad’s new digs with a few empty packing boxes. Seven-year old G’daughter constructed fifteen or twenty feet of tunnel with them on the weekend —…
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With all the demands of moving, I must admit that I wished I hadn’t committed to a Monday post on those first ten (short, admittedly) chapters of the “Childhood” section of Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant…
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