For the next week, I’m keeping my posts a little shorter, giving you tidbits of information, because I’m in the final push of finishing my novel. Yay! My friend Clare sent this link to me, and I thought it was so uplifting I had to share. Mark Johnson is the creator of Playing for Change. […]
Hallways and Doors
Oh my. I go away for a day, because my body has succumbed to all the terrors of stomach flu, and when I come back, I have a small garden of comments on Tuesday’s post. Let’s see. Before I can explain what’s happened (indeed, I thought that the incident would quite pass without me having […]
Another Lesson in Holding Your Judgment
May I just say that I had to include this lovely story today, because my husband’s just sent me the link, and I’m floored. I’m talking about Susan Boyles’ audition on Britain’s Got Talent, which stunned the normally caustic Simon Cowell and his colleagues, Piers Morgan and Amanda Holden…and the reticent, ridiculing crowd. I’d like […]
What Kind of Child Do You Want?
I tell the following story not as an inspirational one, in the sense that you’ll feel happy at the end of it, but as an urgent heartfelt plea to change what we’re doing with our children. I have a friend–let’s call her M.–who wrote me an e-mail the other day. She had a genuine question […]
The Girl in the Cafe
We had movie club on Friday night and showed The Girl in the Cafe–which Dan and I had seen before and loved. If you’ve ever seen Bill Nighy in anything (Love Actually is one of Dan’s and my favorites), or Kelly MacDonald in anything (she was Josh Brolin’s wife in No Country for Old Men), […]