May 2013
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“Dear Linda,
I am in the middle of a flight to St. Louis to give a reading. I...”
– http://www.amazon.com/Anne-Sexton-Self-Portrait-Letters/dp/0618492429/ref=la_B000APCB7U_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1368312452&sr=1-1
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“But I think what happens is as we get more and more obsessed with those pings,...”
– http://www.npr.org/2013/03/25/175056313/in-a-world-thats-always-on-we-are-trapped-in-the-present
April 2013
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Abandoned Dunlop Slazenger Factory, Bowden Street,...
When we moved to Alexandria a few months ago, we started noticing that there were always people climbing over a barbed wire fence surrounding an abandoned building that we typically walked by on the weekends (usually when we are heading over to The Grounds or Salt, Meats, Cheese). At first I didn’t think much of it, but after a while I started to wonder what could possibly be so intriguing...
Mad Girls →
Cara Parks, slate.com
“I was supposed to be having the time of my life,” Sylvia Plath’s young protagonist sighs in the 1963 classic The Bell Jar. Sulking, acerbic Esther Greenwood—Holden Caulfield in a shantung sheath—is in Manhattan, supposedly “having a real…
Hard to believe I used to idolize Sylvia Plath. She seems so lost and sad to my current, middle-aged self.
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“My colleague late at night, a year or two older, was Bill Lyon, who covered...”
– Roger Ebert, Life Itself
March 2013
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A Day in Newtown, part one
I am pretty sure that anyone who follows this blog (does anyone besides my husband follow this blog?) knows that I rarely take the time to write more than a sentence or two. I usually just post or reblog a photo or a news item that catches my eye and call it a day. I don’t know if I have gotten lazier or more private or just plain, old tired, but whatever it is, it is not often that I am...
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Amanda Palmer: The art of asking →
skabunny:
Every year I mark International Women’s Day in my own way. Sometimes I talk to women I’ve never met, sometimes I post things on the internet, sometimes I just talk to my fiancé at length about really cool women that I’ve discovered in the last year.
This year I forgot about celebrating, and that really bothered me. I often listen to TED talks when I am checking my regular websites or...
