There’s a flood warning in Maringouin, y’all. The Morganza Spillway is being opened, because the levees cannot hold. I do miss my home on Dumaine Street, and everything there is to miss about life before the storm. Axé.
Personne n’a répondu à mon article brillant sur Milton Wolff, donc je me tais; c’est-à-dire que je fais grève. Je suis devenue Julianne de Norwich†, dont la fête est aujourd’hui dans l’église universelle; je ne vous en raconterai rien. Je fais en même temps une fête parallèle pour le vendredi 13, car je suis aussi démon; … More Julian of Norwich
11:04 PM in the Crescent City, and the river is going to rise. Despite this distraction we are closing in on the answer to our general question. You have to do what you want to, but the problem in our day was that women were not to think of what they wanted to do. Rather, … More On Doing What You Want To
Milton Wolff’s 2008 obituary, cut out from Le Monde, was sent to our family and is now one of the tattered pieces of paper I am clearing out. He is very striking in the 1938 Robert Capa photograph that accompanies this obituary (5. II.08, by Robert S. Coale, p. 23). Coale says this photograph immortalized … More Milton Wolff
I am not sure what else Anne Lasoff wrote. She felt guilty about writing and “beat down guilt as one would beat down an igniting spark.” (209) She felt (guiltily) “that writing and school were not an avocation but a private vice.” (210) As she began writing her life was no longer pinpointed on her … More “Writing in the Real World”
Naomi Weisstein was more egregiously mistreated than many of us, but also had a clearer sense of what was happening … perhaps because things were so much less veiled in those days … or perhaps because times were better. Weisstein: Wellesley faculty were brilliant and had to work at Wellesley because as women they were … More Weisstein, Valian
I have heard this many times, but in fact I do believe I am unlike the others. Neither the management of time, nor of money, nor of “impulses” is difficult for me. Most advice on life does not apply to me because it is about these three topics. I am unlike some others, too, in … More “Do Not Think You Are Not Like the Others”
Do you think it is possible to save money and get in shape at the same time? I am going to try it and here is how. Off shopping list: beer, cheese, fowl, fruit juice, meat, most fruit, milk, spirits, wine. On shopping list: almonds, beans, brown rice, buttermilk, couscous, lettuce, limes, melons, miso, olives, … More Shopping List
The Spring, clad all in gladness Doth laugh at Winter’s sadness. UPDATE on seasons: I cannot remember a cooler month of May in Louisiana. Since it is cool and the semester is ending, I keep thinking it is Christmas. Yet last night I dreamed of sleeping in summer under the big trees. UPDATE on time: … More Valeria Mignaco
Or, Rematando al rechingado de Robert Boice. I see myself in some of Boice’s examples, as in being busy all the time but not making progress, and spending time contemplating the problem which could, at least in theory, be time spent tackling the job. Of course, when a colleague from another school visited and saw … More Rematando a Robert Boice
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