December 2010
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excerpt.
Gary is my brilliant therapist.
I like the full and active life, Gary says, because you tend to meet people who are like-minded. These people will be men and women, he says, and some of them might become your friends. You might meet someone and start a romantic relationship. But even if that doesn’t happen, at least you’ve made friends. And even if that doesn’t happen, at...
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excerpt.
For the last eight months, I’ve been writing a nonfiction piece about grief and love and, well, we’ll see when I get to the end. And I’m almost to the end—but first, I have to get through the hardest part. And because I must toil on, as we all must when we get to the bleakest moments, I’m going to share a little with you for the next week—where I’ve...
Oh, my heart.
trouble anyway.
Lately, I’ve been spending all my time in the car devising simple explanations. I attach my own words to these, little words that make things sound off-hand: “Oh, I have some health problems,” or, “You know, I don’t like having my photograph taken.” I wave my hand as I say them. On Friday, on the way to Robyn’s house from the bar where I’d met her and her boyfriend for a drink, I thought I could...
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-wwanderlust asked: Hi, i came across your playlist on 8tracks and i really loved it. I was wondering if you could recommend any songs, bands or albums to me? Thanks!
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on writing.
So, I’m in a writing group—and I know, I know how that sounds. I’m pretty proud that my writing group actually writes and workshops and supports and does all the things a writing group is supposed to do. Though, as someone who was once in a writing group that met weekly at a bar, well…the things most writing groups end up doing aren’t so bad, either.
At any rate, the...
excerpt from a letter.
I also have realized the special burden of being a woman, that perfection isn’t just about what you look like but how you act and how you react. I don’t know where we ever got the idea that it was supposed to go one way, but we did.
When I was small I used to dress up as She-Ra and play in the backyard. I had an outfit with a dress and arm guards and a gold plastic mask and shield...
watkinsthunder asked: I just wanted to thank you, your writing is excellent and it's influenced me to dedicate more of my blog to bettering myself as a writer (for the screen, for the page, for the stage, or for otherwise) henceforth. I appreciate your perspective, you're very talented and expressive from what I've read so far. Take care.
Fondly,
-Josh
Fondly,
-Josh
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song.
All week, I’ve been thinking of or about the first lines of William Carlos Williams’ great “To Elsie” (“The pure products of America / go crazy—”).
It’s been a bit along the lines of what people are saying, here and there. But it’s not what I really feel like.
This is.
Song
Did you see me walking by the Buick Repairs?
I was thinking of...
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in the space provided.
I’d like you to sit just outside my door, but now I’ve asked you harder things, and you’ve said yes or, better, nothing. If I don’t keep you I can’t keep you, but I don’t have room for this and you, my body and your body, as if we don’t live only in the space provided.