July is birthday month at our house. Annie and Pearl, even as infants, always seemed to have not one but three or four birthday parties, and this year has been no exception. Yesterday was the big party here — Bruce and I cooked (hamburgers made with organic farm beef), and generally stayed in the background. I went […]
Nineteen years ago — at this very time, by the way — my daughters Annie and Pearl were born. Annie was born first, at 6:40, if I remember right. Then Pearl, at 7:06. “To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. […]
Author Magazine Interview with Meghan O’Rourke
“It is so painful and so terrible to go through a loss, but ideally it deepens us and connects us to others.” -Meghan O’Rourke, poet and author of The Long Goodbye.
“Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times I just sit for three hours with no ideas coming to me. But I know one thing. If an idea does come between 9 and 12, I am there ready for it.” -Flannery O’Connor This […]