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Monthly Archives: May 2010

thanks Victoria

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

A precious Victoria day. I can take or leave the Victoria part…and couldn’t even muster the energy to read the entire Wikipedia page on the history of the holiday…but time with family is certainly precious. So thank you Queen Victoria for whatever you did for Canada. (I can say ignorant things about Canada’s history because [...]

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lots of weirdness

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

I was momentarily considering taking a job that would require writing five “newsflashes” every day for a blog at an inordinately low price. My husband talked me out of such madness, suggesting perhaps I didn’t need more things to distract me from the play I’m trying to write—let alone the fragmented brain required to come [...]

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simon says write a fantabulous

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

FOR THE WEEK OF MAY, 2010 9-16 WHAT I’M READING: RAPT by Winifred Gallagher—a book which discusses the notion of attention. It’s more psychological/scientifically based than self-helpy…if you’re interested but slightly concerned that I might be wooing you into that territory! And I am preparing to re-read Zadie Smith’s ON BEAUTY partly because my mother [...]

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obama in my dreams

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

The last couple of nights my dreams have been incredibly vivid, and frankly I’m annoyed. Usually I sleep like a baby. Not my baby. But someone’s baby. So the night before last, a group of us was being hunted. We found ourselves in an apartment waiting for the killers. I think I might have slipped [...]

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