Books
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Life Lately…
Last year I decided that it would be nice to have a yearly album of printed pictures of our family’s annual doings. I wish the thought had occurred to me sometime early in 2016 instead of December, because I remembered how time-consuming it ended up being rounding up all the pictures from our phones and camera,…
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My Creative Space
I recently picked up a copy of Grace Bonney’s IN THE COMPANY OF WOMEN which is a compilation of Q&A with 100 women in various artistic and creative fields. Some of these women like Genevieve Gorder, and Joy Cho are famous and I already know, but most are unfamiliar faces from around the world. It’s been an eye…
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Do you re read books?
I just re read The Great Gatsby for the third time. Every couple of years it feels like I have forgotten just enough to enjoy another read. I don’t mean that my details on the story are sketch, just that I could use a refresher on Fitzgerald’s writing style. It is truly clever and entertaining. Each…
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Book Signing – David Lebovitz
View when I first walked in. I went to a book-signing event last night. My very first. David Lebovitz, whose blog I read every day (sometimes twice a day) was(is) in Chicago at Hotel Allegro which is literally just three blocks up the road from my office. I love David. I sometimes secretly pretend…
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window shopping…on Amazon
Currently in my Amazon Cart: At Home: A Short History of Private Life – Bill Bryson Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary – David Sedaris Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking – Michael Ruhlman Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains – Jon Krakauer The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible…
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Saving civilization
A gentleman on the train stopped me in the moment of mass exodus onto the platform of Metro Center to tell me that “it’s great to see someone reading Henry James in this day and age, let alone on the DC Metro.” Then we got flung in separate directions as the crowd from behind pushed…
The Antibland Chronicles 