THE CONCEPT OF SKEEVY Photo Courtesy of Nathan Dumlao 0:00 / 0:00 Skeevy As far as I know, all of my maternal Italian American ancestors survived the pandemic of 1918. My theory is that they beat the Spanish flu because they governed their lives by the hygienic principles of skeevy. The word skeevy is Italian […]
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LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID Photo Courtesy of Youseff Naddam 0:00 / 0:00 Love in the Time of Covid On a recent morning, I awoke at five to the sound of our basement door closing two floors below. In order to keep me safer, my husband is now living down there in a little
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THE WRONG KIND OF WOMANBOOK REVIEW Sarah McCraw Crow’s novel transports the reader to the 1970’s at a fictional college similar to Dartmouth. The era is turbulent, both culturally and politically, much like America today. The parallels between now and then are uncanny: a sharply divided nation experiencing a tsunami of discord. Some people push
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MISS JUNETEENTHMOVIE REVIEW Miss Juneteenth is a movie that I happened upon last night while scrolling through new releases. The film had premiered at Sundance this past January and that caught my eye. I had no idea what to expect. Channing Godfrey Peoples wrote and directed Miss Juneteenth. She did an excellent job with both.
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HALFBOOK REVIEW I read Sharon Harrigan’s novel, HALF, in two sittings. It was that good. HALF is a story about identical twins named Artis and Paula, named for Zeus’s twins, Artemis and Apollo. They live with a father who is a monster and a mother who enables him. Told in the first-person plural, Harrigan credibly
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THE SIX NEEDS OF EVERY CHILDINTERVIEW My friends, Amy and Jeffrey Olrick have just come out with a new book called, The 6 Needs of Every Child. I wish I could have read it while I was raising children. Here is an interview with the Olricks: This is a hard time for families. You’ve
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GENIUS Photo Courtesy of Lance Grandahl 0:00 / 0:00 Genius My seventh grade French teacher, Mr. Cook (name changed), was a bona fide genius. Or, so he told us every day, for ten months straight. We happened to be his first teaching job right out of a top-notch university. He said some strange twist of
COW PANTS AND THE MOON LANDING Photo Courtesy of Wolfgang Hasselm 0:00 / 0:00 Cow Pants & The Moon Landing When I was a teenager, I lived in a pair of shorts that looked like the brown and white mottled hide of a Holstein cow. I loved those shorts with an inexplicable fervor. Why was
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Dressing As If You’ve Given Up On Life Photo Courtesy of Qinghom Shen 0:00 / 0:00 Dressing As If You've Given Up On Life Last year, the locker rooms were under renovation at my gym. Each morning, I headed to a tiny, co-ed space where, for obvious reasons, no one was allowed to actually change.
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IN PURSUIT OF NATURE 0:00 / 0:00 In Pursuit of Nature Years ago, I wanted my friend, Meredith, to take me with her on a camping trip to Lake George. I deliberately didn’t tell her that I knew nothing about camping. I didn’t want her to ditch me for a more experienced companion. Up until
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