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Left-Handed Work: A Theory For Women
(perhaps for some men, too)
so i have been working these past two weeks, mulling and toiling and essaying and travailing, over what is now a large sheaf of rough draft garbage, complete and total crap. love’s labour lost.
October 1985Doorways
November 17. Monday. The car didn’t start — again. We rode the bus. Manuel, in hat, was driving. He picked us up, leaving the students who were waiting to wait seven more minutes. I bet they hated me.
July 1985How To Keep Love Alive
Learning the proper name for magic; laughing at each other’s faults; finding meaning daily, providing reasons for waking every dawn
December 1984Good Marriages
A miracle, a third person in the relationship: Jesus, a fourth divorce
April 1983Precedent
In 1975 I came to love Faye Henry. She was thirty-five years older than I and necessary for my mother, who had no friends at Harvard until she and Faye Henry fell asleep together in the back of “Practicum in Ethnographic Futures Research,” knew they were destined to be friends, and have been ever since.
July 1982A Sun Valentine
On Love And Relationship
Here’s a box of our best: some of the most interesting words we’ve printed about love and relationship over the past eight years — some of it’s nutty, some of it’s bittersweet, maybe you’ll find the cherry.
February 1982