I knew I had a book when…
In January 2001, more than a year before I began therapy with Dr. L, or thought I needed to, he gave an autobiographical assignment to our meditation group that exposed my lack of any glue to hold my story together, …
Month: March 2014
Revisiting home
REVISITING HOME AFTER FIFTY YEARS© The porch is gone and the screen door. The peeling clapboards look like siding and roof is new. Insects flew right in the torn screen door. Even the cat found entry: It was a broken place. …
Transparent
I have just started reading Jill Bialosky’s stunning History of a Suicide and already, only ten pages in, I sense her sister’s feelings as inescapable. Clearly, I am identifying more than I should with the woman who took her own …
Deceptive Simplicity
I have just read Brenda Miller’s Blessing of the Animals and I am struck dumb by the symmetry and loveliness of her writing as I struggle through Philip Bromberg’s The Shadow of the Tsunami for at least the second time, left-braining what is probably …