Thinking back to the years when the biggest challenge to carry-on-only travel was how to fit enough books into our cases, I am ever so appreciative of e-books, especially since I now borrow them so…
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Not ready to give up on this blog completely, yet, but for the time being keeping up two blogs is unrealistic if I’m to honour my commitment to my personal writing project. I hope I’ll…
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Yes, I have trouble keeping this blog going — I’d say that it’s an example of a lifelong trend to, as I’ve often been warned from adolescence onward, “spread myself too thin.” But I’m going…
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Despite all the other tasks calling to me from/for this blog, most of them pleasurably if time-consuming, I’m going to take a few minutes to transcribe a paragraph from Maggie Nelson’s memoir The Argonauts. Nelson’s…
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In January last year, I wrote that I wanted to write here more regularly, and that I thought a way to do that would be to post as I was reading a book rather than…
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