What a delightful book! It absconds with your heart and leaves you very sad…and happy, all rolled into one. I guess the word for it would be bittersweet. A precocious, suicidal twelve-year old (Paloma Josse) and a prickly, hiding-her-smarts concierge (Madame Michel) live in the same apartment building. They meet, but only toward the end […]
The Way I Want to Parent
This comes from Brenda Shoshanna’s book Zen Miracles: Finding Peace in an Insane World. “There is a wonderful story about a great Zen Master who was called by his brother and asked to come home and help with his nephew. The boy had become a rebel, staying out late at night, smoking, drinking, and making […]
On the Difficulty of Writing
Finally. The truth, as I know it, about writing. Junot Díaz, who wrote the 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, splays it all out, in O Magazine’s November 2009 issue. You can read it here. Some writers might disagree. Some writers may sit down every morning, to be met with […]
Zen
Well, you’ll all be wondering what exactly went on at this mother’s retreat I went to on Saturday, and you’re in luck, because I shall tell you all about it. Sidle up a little closer, friend, because I’m ready to dish all. And every mistake I make in explaining it (because really, it’s unexplainable!) is […]
Two Cookbooks
I’m loving these cookbooks right now and thought I’d share. They’re not at all alike, yet they share a similar hunger for delicious food. The first is Hot Sour Salty Sweet, a huge coffee table-sized book with glorious pictures and tons of history following the people of Southeast Asia. Quite fascinating and breathtaking, all in […]