As any new parent, I’m feeling a little worn around the edges–exhausted, depleted, and discouraged. So, I’m ready for our upcoming trip to the southern regions of this world where there are sandy beaches and ample sun and fabulous food. It will be good for continued bonding with Liliana and good for the spirit (because, […]
Another Review! and Dawkins
There’s another review of Eve online! It hails from my brother’s Presbyterian church in Alabama. They’re not recommending the book. You can read the review here. [Update 2.16.11: This link is now dead.] If you go to the Media Page, you can read all the reviews on Eve so far. Because the reviews from Publishers […]
Sharon Olds
The first poem of Sharon Olds’s I ever read came from my brother Tim. It was a pretty blow-you-away, killer kind of poem called “I Go Back to May 1937.” You can read it here. It’s one of the great and damning poems read during Sean Penn’s movie Into the Wild. Of course I acquired […]
First Snow
We woke to a winter wonderland this morning, the tree branches laced with snow. The world is a quiet, brilliant white, and the birds and deer are feeding below (see the cardinal?). Liliana and I sit by the window for a good twenty minutes, watching. She names things: the snow, the deer, the chirp-chirps. When […]
Bella Bunny’s Mama
OK, so now Liliana mimics us in everything. Bella Bunny has a potty chair, too, and she gets an M&M if she goes. So, howdy, I say. Little L. knows exactly what she’s doing–or not doing. And that’s with the supposed language issue, which I don’t really think is an obstacle anymore. She knows most […]