Good people, I’ve been asked to say something at a wedding. The wedding of two people I introduced. One person was the good friend of my former upstairs neighbor in my apartment; the other person was the ex-girlfriend of a friend who has since fallen off the radar. She moved in with me after they [...]
Much of the TGW crowd is partnered up, and, I imagine, complete in some read-the-Sunday-Times-over-breakfast way. I live next door to two married couples and it is true: their grass is greener.
Yet for the tiny sliver of uncoupled Whatsiters – what will become of us? Will we find love? And how – how, will we [...]
I am reading a book about a human who falls in love with a vampire. It is summer novel, wonderfully trashy with page after page of “should I?” or “shouldn’t I?” plucked like petals in endless dilemmas. The vampire is cold and beautiful. The girl is soft and spunky. Their relationship somehow transcends triteness under [...]
I became a feminist when I was 24 years old.
I had graduated from college, been promoted to a new position, lived in a swank apartment and flashed a fresh-from-the-velvet engagement ring. In the window of time between waiting and settled, I decided to take a class at the local State University. After looking over my options, I [...]
What we’re watching, reading/looking at, watching, and, uh, rejecting:
The American Experience, “Walt Whitman” (PBS)
Last Thursday night we serendipitously stumbled upon the broadcast of The American Experience episode on Walt Whitman. One commentator noted that “it was as if Whitman had read a want ad’s notice for ‘National Poet’ and signed up.”
For me, the highlight [...]