I’m finishing reading The Art of the Wasted Day, a book of essays about the lost practice of leisure time by Patricia Hampl. I’d been waiting until I completed a bunch of tasks to properly earn reading it (whatever that means), and packed it with me on a trip to Telluride for the (incredible, heart and mind…
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If you’re in or around New Jersey this weekend, I’m reading at the Ridgewood Library. What’s really exciting is that my name is misspelled in this headline. This is not at all unusual, I just sent an email asking for a correction elsewhere. How it goes. The lack of symmetry! Why don’t I have two…
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My friend Renee Olander has a gorgeous book that’s just come out, and she mailed me these beautiful cards with the cover on one side and a poem, “Scared of Devils” on the other side. When I was a kid, I was very conscious of my parents’ mortality. Perhaps more than normal. I’d check if…
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Friday I’m reading at East City Bookshop with Faisal Mohyuddin and Simone Roberts. They are stunning humans and you should come. A few weeks ago I reread The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. I first read it some time ago, then lent my copy to someone. Then a month ago I had the…
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A very beautiful, very dear friend of mine asked me to read a poem at her wedding–a poem of my own. She is an enormously special person to me. We have been present for one another in times of excruciating grief and joy. She is someone who I believe, having known her since she was…
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1. I am writing this post from a blanket on the grass at soccer practice. Soccer practice has begun, and next week school, and the next week breakdancing. Brown leaves are scattered across the grass, and three white dogs are roughhousing nearby and I’m wearing the most comfortable jeans ever and things almost seem steady.…
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I had a really wonderful weekend with my sons. We did some of the things we like to do, and we laughed a lot. We had dinner on Sunday with my oldest sister and her family. My sister has two brilliant, beautiful teenage daughters and while we were all making dinner (fresh pasta, from scratch–and…
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