Kids. Are they bundles of joy? Or crippling burdens? A trip to the mall will remind anyone that it depends on the parent and depends on the kid. However, a headline like that is not going sell papers. Despite the title of New York Magazine cover story “I Love My Children. I Hate My Life,” [...]
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Choosing Children: A Huge Investment in a Perilous World
Posted in Film, Writing, tagged alice sebold, death, parenting, the lovely bones on July 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Turns 50, but Where Is Harper Lee?
Posted in Film, Politics, Writing, tagged atticus, civil rights, to kill a mockingbird on June 6, 2010 | 3 Comments »
This summer America celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” but don’t count on an appearance by the reclusive author, 84-year-old Harper Lee of Monroeville, Alabama. She hasn’t granted an interview since 1964. She never gives speeches. She’s rarely seen outside of her hometown. And she’s apparently made her peace [...]
A Poem for Spring
Posted in Writing, tagged flowering plum, louise gluck, poem, spring on May 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Flowering Plum by Louise Gluck In spring from the black branches of the flowering plum tree the woodthrush issues its routine message of survival. Where does such happiness come from as the neighbors’ daughter reads into that singing, and matches? All afternoon she sits in the partial shade of the plum tree, as the mild [...]
A Baby: The Road Not Taken
Posted in Pop Culture, Writing, tagged baby, childless, kids, mother's day, regret on April 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Never had one. When I was 20 years old, I thought I never would. I seriously considered tying my tubes. For lots of reasons, well cataloged by my fellow writer Sarah Wildman in her post Best Age to Have a Baby? A) Before 26? B) After 26? C) Never? Besides, babies are noisy. They’re grabby. [...]
J.D. Salinger: A ‘Selfish Old Goat,’ But Not a Perv
Posted in Pop Culture, Writing, tagged catcher in the rye, jd salinger, joyce maynard on April 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Author J.D. Salinger, who died in January, is once again in the news, in all his appalling glory. The Morgan Library in Manhattan has put on display Salinger’s correspondence with a friend — Michael Mitchell, the artist who drew the original illustration on Salinger’s 1951 novel, “Catcher in the Rye.” These letters in particular do [...]
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