Archive for October, 2006
Monday, October 30th, 2006
A humbling experience
I’ve noticed something very strange about life.
It likes to help you keep things in proper perspective.
Take this week, for instance. I am having one of those weeks that’s unbelievably good. Not to sound puffy or anything, but last night I had a reading at a downtown New Haven club, in a new literary event called […]
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Monday, October 23rd, 2006
A child comes home to visit
They go away to college, and then they come home for a visit, and somehow everything has changed.
Stephanie, who has been gone nearly eight weeks now, came home from New York City recently, back to what was once her regular life in our small town.
I heard her on the phone on Saturday afternoon with a […]
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Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
The coffee shop office
These are strange days around here. Fall has come, and I am on page 50 of the novel I am writing, the one that is due next spring. I have discovered lately that it behaves better when I take it out in public to write on it.
I suspect that all novels have their own personalities, […]
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Friday, October 13th, 2006
Feng shui
Oh, is it October already?
Here you think you are writing a blog that nobody really pays much attention to, and then a couple of weeks go by without entering anything–okay, THREE weeks go by–and friends start to phone the house and say, “Are you all right?”
I’m all right. If you must know, I’ve been writing […]