Little Do You Know

I’m starting to lose track of what day it is. It doesn’t feel like any particular day, and when I look out the window, all I see is piles of white. We shoveled today for a couple of hours, piling snow on snow on snow. Thirteen is starting to get cabin fever from being sick […]

I received an embarassment of riches yesterday.
Books: “Front Cover: Great Jacket and Cover Design”; “Falling Upward” Literary Criticism and essays by Lee Siegel (present from my very literate brother in law); “The Seven Basic Plots” which is Bible-length and all about our core story ethos.
DVDs: The Office (seasons 1 and 2); Boston Legal (seasons 1 […]

It’s weird not to receive mail for two days in a row during the holidays.
The neighbors got together and shoveled and snow-blew the cul de sac today. I googled my address and was hoping to see a white snowy mess, but it must be an old photo because there are green leaves and grass. That […]

Yes, it’s a big one. It started snowing about 5 a.m. and the state is socked in. So if you were coming to visit, and you know I’d give you real whipped cream if I knew you were coming, wait a few days. Mr. Tree will soon be home and we’re making chili and maybe […]

I was making some cookies this afternoon and had the kitchen t.v. on Food Network, channel 47. After much consideration, I must announce that I now hate Sandra Lee more than I hate Ina Garten (In a garden.) At least Ina knows how to cook. The food on Sandra’s show looks horrible, her kitchen is […]

Well, for pasta from a pizza place. The wait is supposed to be around an hour. In this neck of the woods, that’s a long time.
I finished Case Histories by Kate Atkinson. I’m fairly certain that others of you have read this. What a great read. There was even one cry-inspiring scene. I recommend it […]

Charles Dickens. Thanks, Chuck, for writing really long books. I’m four chapters in on Nicholas Nickelby.
The antithesis to my happiness is that I didn’t keep a comprehensive list of all the books I read this year. I know I read quite a few (that being relative, of course) but I can’t do an instant recall […]

We were talking about books. Look at all the old names.

Subject: Okay, where are the book chat people?*
Date: 11/8/2000 8:46 AM Central Daylight Time
From: TreeSquish
Message-id:
Current and planned books over the next six weeks:
Finish Atlas Shrugged.
Finish Macho, a poorly written book about migrant farm workers.
Read Brave New World.
Read King Lear.
For Christmas break, A Tale of […]

In his classic study, “The Great War and Modern Memory,” Paul Fussell wrote of how World War I shattered and remade literature, for only a new language of irony could convey the trauma and waste. Under the auspices of Mr. Bush, the Iraq war is having a comparable, if different, linguistic impact: the more he […]

It’s snowing here, lightly. Nothing like Spidey’s blizzard, although I do have to say that storm was here earlier this week and it did cause some bad accidents due to its iciness.
I’m going to see “For Your Consideration” in two hours, with Mom.
Then we’re going to a poetry reading. Then I’m coming home.
I have so […]