Noted
Feminist Friends Forever: Met and Unmet
Maxine Kumin died last week at age 88. In her typically thoughtful obituary, Margalit Fox highlights Kumin’s long life as a poet, teacher, mother, and
February 13, 2014
Noted
Transitions
“It’s not the moves, it’s between the moves.” This was one of those offhand remarks that has stuck in my mind for at least twenty
May 23, 2013
Noted
Brooding
One morning last week when I was walking around the reservoir in Central Park with a friend we came upon these two ducks. The sight
May 9, 2013
Paris Memoir
In Search of Lost Time: Checking A Memoirist’s Memory
Paris in January is not anyone’s dream vacation: skies are permanently gray and you have to carry an umbrella. It seems particularly ill timed unless you
February 14, 2013
Welcome. Some musings on my current preoccupations with the worlds of illness and the worlds of books, the vicissitudes of living with cancer and the need now, in my eighties, to imagine what new writing might be.