I have been reading a lot of books lately, but I don’t especially feel like writing about them, so I won’t. I have been trying to be a little more creative with my cooking, almost entirely because of the bounty of vegetables we have been getting from our CSA. Today I made a very tasty [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Playing with Vegetables
Posted in food on July 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Fine Art
Posted in art, dogs, travel on July 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I was not expecting to be able to go with Dorothy to the museum today because I received that dreaded envelope in the mail a couple of months ago–the one that says “Jury Administration” on the return address. However, last night I called the number they provided and learned that my juror pool was canceled [...]
Book, Soup
Posted in Books, food, publishing on July 16, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I thought some might be interested in hearing more about my book project, so here goes. A few months ago, I received a letter from an academic in California who was editing an anthology of essays on ecofeminism. He had read my dissertation (which shows a certain amount of initiative, since it is not published [...]
What Happened?
Posted in writing on July 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I just spent half an hour writing a post about my new book project and WordPress deleted it. I am very annoyed. Anyway, I have a new book project. It’s academic. It’s about ecofeminism. I’m hoping to have a contract within the next month. The book will be due in about a year. My editor [...]
Some Kind of Fairytale
Posted in Books on July 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Emily, who knows how I like stories with a good scare in them, sent me a copy of John Connolly’s The Book of Lost Things a few weeks ago, and it was quite a satisfying take on how fairytales permeate our lives. The main character is a boy named David, whose mother has died and [...]
“Words, Words, Words…”
Posted in Books, Uncategorized on July 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A few mornings ago, Muttboy and I were walking on one of our usual paths through the big park. The trail followed a serpentine route around a few trees that had blown down in a freak thunderstorm and tornado that ripped through here a little over a year ago. Suddenly Muttboy perked up [...]
Another Blog
Posted in cycling on July 9, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I decided to follow Dorothy’s lead and create a blog just for my training and cycling. I have not really been satisfied with the various other ways I had to log all of my training, so I decided that a new blog would be the best way to do it. With the blog, I can [...]
Literary Agony
Posted in Books on July 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m going to write more about this book later, because at the moment I am in no condition to write at all coherently. David Wroblewski’s debut novel, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is the most powerful novel I have read in a very, very long time. As I sit here struggling to say something about [...]
