An Artist’s Destiny
Recently, I attended a live performance of Sofia Gubaidulina’s Fairytale Poem. I knew very little about this piece before the performance. I knew that it had been commissioned in 1971 … Continue reading An Artist’s Destiny
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Book Review: Transforming Climate Anxiety by Leslie Davenport
I received a copy of this book from the author through a LibraryThing giveaway. Transforming Climate Anxiety opens with a definition of climate anxiety, also called “eco-anxiety”: “the worry, fear, … Continue reading Book Review: Transforming Climate Anxiety by Leslie Davenport
Bookends: September 2026
I was sitting in the waiting room of a medical office recently, and I noticed something I haven’t seen in maybe fifteen years: The waiting room was nearly full, but … Continue reading Bookends: September 2026
How Social Media Has Changed My Real-World Connections
Sometime in 2004, a doula friend was dropping me off at home, and as we sat in her dark car in front of my apartment building, just before the police … Continue reading How Social Media Has Changed My Real-World Connections
What is a TBR for?
From June 2017 to August 2018, I did a TBR list declutter. It was a long and arduous process, but I pared down my to-read list from a ridiculous 782 … Continue reading What is a TBR for?
Booker Prize Longlist Wrap-Up
Lately people I’ve been in communication with have been saying that they’re “circling back to close the loop” on some issue or topic, and when I sat down to wrap … Continue reading Booker Prize Longlist Wrap-Up
Mid-Month Reading Check-In: Booker Prize Longlist
The Booker Prize longlist was announced in late July, and although it’s taken me a while to get copies of most of the books on the list, I’ve managed to … Continue reading Mid-Month Reading Check-In: Booker Prize Longlist
Four Lessons Childbirth Taught Me About Life
My younger child turned seventeen last month, and his elder sibling was twenty-one this past spring, and I must be a slow learner, because it wasn’t until this week that … Continue reading Four Lessons Childbirth Taught Me About Life
Phone Fast Six-Week Check-In
I’ve made a few realizations in the couple of weeks since my last phone fast check-in. According to my phone use app, I decreased my weekly phone usage by 50% … Continue reading Phone Fast Six-Week Check-In
Precocious Kids and Comicbook Supervillains
For the past five years, I have been teaching language arts and math in an after-school enrichment program. I began this academic year teaching language arts to a classroom of … Continue reading Precocious Kids and Comic Supervillains
Bookends: August 2026
August was a bit of a rollercoaster for me, but not a fast and exciting rollercoaster. It was more like one of those that doesn’t have any big hills and … Continue reading Bookends: August 2026
5 Reasons I Love Semi-Psychic Sally by Sara George
This summer I had the privilege of narrating the audiobook for Sara George’s second novel, Semi-Psychic Sally, which comes out on September 1st. Here’s the blurb: Foreseeing is believing. Sally … Continue reading 5 Reasons I Love Semi-Psychic Sally by Sara George