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Monthly Archives: January 2016
Hello from Florida!
Well, I guess it’s 11:20 here on the east coast, but my laptop says it’s only 8:20. Someday I’ll understand why my computer doesn’t automatically update the time when it changes time zones, but as of right now I don’t … Continue reading
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Thoughts on Christopher Hitchens’ Thomas Jefferson: Author of America
Robert Frost has been much on my mind lately – probably because my birthday is approaching. Along with Philip Larkin, Frost is the poet that best captures for me the slow but orderly forward motion of time. At the same … Continue reading
The Ugliest Radio in the West
So it’s 11:54 here at Postcards from Purgatory, and Jill and I have pledged to post every day this month (I’m going to lobby for every day this year, but don’t tell Jill). But see, the thing is, my day … Continue reading
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Yarn Along
This lump of prickly paleness is my knitting life at the moment. I always knit when I am watching TV (or movies… or MOOC’s), and I have had very little interest in TV lately. Even Downton Abbey, which I usually … Continue reading
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Rather than thinking about books…
Lately I’ve been distracted by three things: internet shopping, watching TV, and thinking about my trip to Orlando. Did you guys know that the internets have great sales after the holidays? And on TV, there’s The Biggest Loser, and recorded episodes … Continue reading
From the Notebooks
One of my favorite parts of being a writer (besides the poverty and carpal tunnel syndrome, of course) is the fact that when it’s late and I’m tired and there’s a blog post to get done, I can open my … Continue reading
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A Review of Sarah Vowell’s Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
Sarah Vowell has been a favorite of mine for a few years, ever since I read The Wordy Shipmates. If I could stomach NPR, I probably would have known of her sooner. Sarah Vowell does for American history what I … Continue reading
Happy Monday (on a Saturday)!
Days of the week have very little meaning to us weekend workers. While most of you were doing Saturday things today, I was dealing with all of this stuff. This is actually not so bad, now that I look at … Continue reading
Thoughts on Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal (by Jill)
I don’t even know how to begin talking about this book. Atul Gawande is a surgeon who has written several books before this one. Being Mortal is, essentially, about dying in a time in human history when more can … Continue reading
Postcards From Purgatory 