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The best-known popular culture response to the deaths at Kent State was the protest song “Ohio”, written by Neil Young (who was Canadian) for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Gary was playing the song early this morning, one of only two he plays on specific days. The other is for the day he failed to pass…
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Yesterday morning ravens came to eat the stale bread we threw out. An eagle flew low over our heads, and we found the pile of abandoned “treasures” dumped from some child’s bucket. It must have looked like food. Only two gulls stood in the stream. The sky was bright blue all day.That afternoon I counted…
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Allegory of May – Triumph of Apollo, a fresco by Francesco del Cossa (c. 1430 – c. 1477) was an Italian Renaissance painter of the School of Ferrara. “Cossa is now known for fresco decoration of the summer pleasure villa/palazzo known as the Palazzo Schifanoia, located just outside the city gates. Together, they painted a…
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Camp NaNoWriMo word count: over 45,000 as I type this before 7am, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 So. I complete my month of furious (not angry, just driven and desperate) writing, and I outstripped my original simpler goal of ten thousand words. I have journaled and written essays and book reviews and worked on stories and revised a…
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Camp NaNoWriMo word count: 43,032 by early Monday morning, 29 April 2019 The light was coming as I typed on Sunday, early-early. Food52 is promoting a new cookbook that recommends buying small and often, using everything up as you go along, and yes! that is what I have been trying to do lately. Most of the Food52…
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Camp NaNoWriMo word count: 42,051 by Sunday morning, 28 April 2019 The New York Times reports on longterm plans for Guantanamo Bay where prisoners include a man who had been “confined to a box the size of a coffin while held at a secret C.I.A. site and waterboarded 83 times to break him” and is expected to…
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Camp NaNoWriMo word count: 41,478 by Saturday morning, 27 April 2019 One thing: I could go the rest of my life without yet another version of Les Miserables. I never liked that story to begin with. And second, watching Shields and Brooks on PBS Friday evening, I am reminded that I would prefer not to have to…
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Camp NaNoWriMo word count: 39,039 by 6:30 Friday morning, 26 April 2019 On our way home from two nights away (“We’re on vacation!”), we stopped several times. Gary bought a double-scoop ice cream cone. I bought batik fabric. One of my favorite fabric stores in Wheeler had a sign in the door. After 35 years, the store…
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Camp NaNoWriMo word count: 38,287 by Thursday monring, 25 April 2019 EMD word count: 70,242, 240 pages, an imperfect but respectable length. TUESDAY. We were away in the morning and the point of being away is to be without the normal day-to-day distractions. Usually this means I do not bring my computer. No news. No television. I…
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