Death’s door . . .
My apologies in advance for cross-posting — I’ve put the following up at my other blog, Materfamilias Reads, where I keep track of my reading as well as of my responses to what I read.…
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At Death’s Door with Sandra Gilbert
I’m reading Sandra Gilbert’s Death’s Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve and it’s helping me articulate something of what I experienced intensely through/at Pater’s vasovagal episodes (fainting) last week. She uses Georges Batailles…
View PostHangin’ Out in the Sunshine
After last week’s emotional events, this past weekend was a time for relaxing and taking stock of our good fortune. Back on the island, the heat was more tolerable, enjoyable even. We ran before it…
View PostTiger, tiger . . .
Pater’s recent enjoyment of Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies guided his choice, in an airport bookstore several weeks ago, of Aravind Adiga’s Man Booker-winning, The White Tiger, and I’m so glad that was the case.…
View PostHeat and Life and Death and Love — the whole damn thing, indeed!
When daughter #2 was about 9 or 10, I was French-braiding her hair one morning before school. She was kneeling on the carpet so that I could reach the top of her head easily, and…
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