Remember that scene in Annie Hall where the young Alvy Singer is sitting in a doctor’s office with his mother? The doctor asks him why he’s depressed, why he won’t do his homework and he says “The universe is expanding.”
That’s the way I’ve been feeling lately. Maybe it’s just February—which is itself [...]
Entries from February 2008
February 29, 2008
The Blues
February 13, 2008
Validation Day
A few years ago Jane came to stay for a couple of months–she built herself a loft on the side porch, piled the bed with warm quilts and moved in. It was early February, the unloveliest month around here, when the novelty of winter has long since worn off and spring has not yet [...]
February 6, 2008
Straying Home
I make my living writing snappy blurbs and photo captions for glossy magazines, so how hard can it be to come up with a book title?
How about The Visible Woman? That’s the title of a zine I wrote years ago and I still like it. I proposed the title to an agent I [...]
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The best seat in our house is definitely The Invisible Chair. Mark invented it a couple of years ago and we've got the prototype in the living room. Most days it's just a chair--we sit on it to use the house computer, we pull it out on the porch when we need an extra place to sit, visiting children have crayoned on it--but on evenings when people sit around playing music, it reveals 
All six hens are laying now--brown eggs from the two Barred Rocks and these lovely little blue-green eggs from the Americaunas.
