A journey to collect 500 20th century novels by women
I am ashamed to say that, for most of my life, I didn’t consider the remarkable women in my family to be all that remarkable – I thought of them as just doing what women do. My grandmother on my father’s side not only got a college degree, but all of her sisters did as …
My book organization has always been, even at the best of times, a bit on the…haphazard side. Living alone as I have for 12 years, things are where I put them and I understand why they are there, and I don’t need to explain to anyone why things are where they are. For example, before …
You are probably not supposed to eat pumpkin applesauce muffins for dinner…but it’s cold and raining, it’s been a bit of a strange week or two, so I find myself under a fuzzy blanket with a cup of tea, reading Stone Butch Blues and eating homemade muffins for dinner. It’s comforting. The mass shooting in …
It had been just long enough since the last time I had read For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf that I had forgotten what Ntozake Shange does to the reader at the end until it was almost upon me – then, like it always does, the moment punched me …
Sometime yesterday between apple picking and used book buying, I started seeing Ntozake Shange’s name popping up in my social media, and I got that sinking feeling in my stomach that you get when a writer you love and admire is popping up in the news. Shange had passed away (in my home state of …
I was going to blog earlier in the week, honest I was. But it’s the postseason around here and I’ve been Distracted By Baseball. My mother and I have watched the postseason together most years since I graduated college; the last couple of years, since I’ve gotten cable, we’ve texted snarky comments to each other …
So, I decided to just up and go to Denver for a couple days. A little on the spontaneous side, but one of my favorite bands, The National, was playing Red Rocks, a super famous venue I’d never been to, and I thought, why not? I don’t have kids, so I can do things like …
