It isn’t the anniversary of her death. Nor is it fall, the season I usually start to feel her absence. But, grief doesn’t run on a calendar, so that I can cross off weeks or months until the fog lifts. Grief rises to the surface, intermittent, unpredictable, like bubbles in a bed of lava. I’d …
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The Science of Writing
I came upon this article from Real Simple Magazine the other day, where Jonah Lehrer writes about the science of thinking. He mentions indecision, which leads to panic, which I relate to well: I can’t decide what I want to cook for dinner (because, really, I don’t want to cook dinner). Then, the kids ask …
Emily Post Uncovered
I pulled out my copy of Emily Post’s Etiquette* today. I referenced her in my blog introduction. And while I’m not researching manners, I am easily offended, by people like the dentist or nurses in the doctor’s office or PTA presidents. I wondered how more of her etiquette discourse might translate from 1922 to 2009. …