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Family and Relationships
Being A Parent
Being changed forever, being on a long journey of wonder, being surprised
July 1980Wrinkled Little Man With Sad Eyes
Book Review
The mature work of Somerset Maugham is nothing if not honest. It moves on the weight of his blunt, plain sentences, which he delivers to the reader like so many body blows.
June 1980A Summer’s Tale
(Part Two)
Some mornings you have a feeling everything’s going to go right. I got mine when this blond girl in an old Studebaker, wearing light blue shorts, a cotton blouse, and sunglasses perched on top of her head, stopped to pick me up. She said she had the whole day off with nothing to do.
June 1980Childhood Fears
Large vegetables, losing one or both parents, the death of an animal
June 1980One Hundred Years Of Solitude — An Appreciation
We forget, until a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude reminds us, that a metaphor can be a glimpse into the interconnectedness of things, and as such, a large new breath of possibility to our pallid imaginings of self.
May 1980
