Try this on for size. Carl Honore’s article “In Praise of Slow Thinking” (Huffington Post, October 23, 2009). Google allows their employees to devote 20 percent of their time to personal projects. For this reason: “Slow Thinking is intuitive, woolly and creative. It is what we do when the pressure is off, and there is […]
A Gentle, Lyrical Touch
I tried to explain to my husband way-back-when that I was a goody two shoes when I was young, and by that I don’t mean I was perfect (I was a bossy tattletale, if you must know!). I mean that the way I perceived the world was drastically different than my friends’, as must be […]
Where the Neurotic and Moody Things Are
The sincerest of apologies to two of my favorite literary and movie-making people–Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze–but I did not like Where the Wild Things Are. Sadness. Good things: the movie is shot beautifully. Imaginary worlds and characters are fleshed out on screen (the fort was especially wonderful). There are a few excellent moments when […]
Quietly, In the New Life
“Oceans” by Juan Ramon Jimenez I have a feeling that my boat has struck, down there in the depths, against a great thing. And nothing happens! Nothing . . . Silence . . . Waves . . . —- Nothing happens? Or has everything happened, and are we standing now, quietly, in the new life? […]
