Little Do You Know

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Mom and I went down to the Paramount on Thursday night to see John Prine. It was heaven, almost. His voice is so strong. Opening for him, waif-like Mindy Smith. She has an angelic voice and funny and quiet between-songs banter. She also came on later and sang Angel From Montgomery with John. He sang […]

I re-read my post from the other day and it seemed like the glaring hole in logic is that I wasn’t writing about what I do have.
One good thing is my Netflix subscription. Here are the movies coming to my house for the weekend. Volver, with Penelope Cruz; Marie Antoinette; Dreamland. Dreamland is about this:
Director […]

Okay, so lately, in the middle of all the chaos–or what can be categorized by an overwrought and melodramatic nature–of publishing and raising the difficult, lovable adolescent, I have been listening to this amazing book called Eat, Pray, Love. It’s the memoir of this writer who takes a year away from her own life and […]

A tulip bloomed today. Great sign that things will turn around.
I spent the whole day at the office today, putting books in big envelopes and printing mailing labels, postage included. The girls are on spring break so tomorrow they will go with me and help haul all the piles to the car, then into the […]

This post will be interesting to people who get raw address lists and have to format labels, and who don’t want to either retype the data or cut and paste each address block one by one:I got a list of three hundred addresses for a postcard mailing. The list was in Word, one column. I’m […]

Him Her Him Again the End of Him by Patricia Marx
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
A Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
Traveler by Ron McLarty

It was seventy again today. Almost all the snow is gone and the potholes are big enough on some streets to bury small cars. I drank some coffee out on the deck today, thinking about a few flowers to plant, nowhere near the kind of garden Emma has, but I’d like a little color back […]

I finished William Boyd’s Restless this morning. Very good spy story with mother/daughter protagonists. Not as long or emotionally engaging as Any Human Heart, but a page turner many of you may enjoy. Wait for the paperback and while you’re waiting, Boyd’s The Blue Afternoon is a mystery that’s widely available.
Yesterday I bought a Kate […]

Tired of looking the shopping list but happy to see the comments. I’ve been doing layout for a couple of months for the spring books and I’m just about done. This is one of the book covers, my favorite.