Being members of a dog family, Swells and I are especially tickled by this video, but I hope even those of you who aren’t can find the kind of painful joy that we feel when watching it over and over and over. Thanks to Stella for submitting this photo for today’s levity post:
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Dang, y’all.
Today was my day! And I blew it! It’s not too late, right? Last night I had one of those “if we’ve only got a couple of hours to sleep, let’s make it count” dreams. I don’t know if I can fully explain it because it was so awful I woke up crying and couldn’t [...]
Million Dollar Baby
I never thought I’d be one of those women whose prime directive is the fruitless pursuit of a baby, but it’s happened. I was 38 when I met The Fella. We married in the summer of my 40th year, and began our life together in hot pursuit of creating another life. Fun, carefree sex morphed [...]
Queerness and exile
I’ve been thinking this week along some of the same lines as Rachel’s post from yesterday. I’d like to add a few thoughts to hers, starting on the subject of religion but then generalizing. Last week I went to a panel discussion on queer youth and religion where one speaker, Professor Mark Jordan, talked about [...]
Make it better now
I can’t get Asher Brown’s face out of my head. The Texas teenager committed suicide last month after years of bullying at school. You probably haven’t heard of him. His story was overshadowed by that of Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers freshman who jumped off the George Washington Bridge after his roommate secretly recorded him kissing [...]
What do artists do?
Today I came across this article on Slate discussing the method by which Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line was filmed and edited. I can’t say it surprised me, exactly, since The Thin Red Line is sort of a mess, I suppose. But it was a film that touched me very deeply in an extremely [...]
Advance grief
This week The New Yorker (issue dated September 13, 2010) published extracts from Roland Barthes’ diary after the death of his mother. These brilliant meditations on grief struck a deep chord. My (coincidentally French) cat has entered the final stage of her life. She likely has a tumor in her bladder and is nearly 20 [...]
OMG – Where’s the un-send key?!
It has been a long time since I inadvertently sent an embarrassing email to the wrong party. Or, it had been until about an hour ago, anyway. Who hasn’t felt that special panic, that sudden gasp of dread, that accompanies watching an email shoot off into the ether toward the wrong recipient? I can’t remember [...]
Crash, Rinse, Repeat
The fence, graffiti, ramps and staircases remind me vaguely of a Sesame Street set. I realize this is not the look they were going for, but the urban edge feels constructed, assembled from pieces of West Side Story and Romper Room. I feel out of place. It is not my age, there are plenty of [...]
