I have blogger’s block. I’ve rediscovered my baggage about writing. I am suffering from bloggage. A sufficient number of my kind readers have responded positively to my blog that I’ve been “trying on” thinking of myself as A Writer. I’ve sought, received, and somewhat followed, excellent advice. I’ve remembered the supposition that being A Writer […]
An [Un]Eventful Twilight Boat Ride
In the middle of last summer, during our family vacation in New York’s Adirondacks, we went on a lake tour and narrowly avoided the dangers of my imagination. A bustling cross-country ski center in the winter, Lapland Lake is a quiet retreat the rest of the year, shared only by those staying in the ten […]
Dreidel dreidel dreidel
“Come on, come on, let’s light the candles!” we called upstairs to our son. He felt badly that he hadn’t gotten us Hanukkah presents, but he’d come up with a solution, and tonight was the night. He wrote up a list of times from which we could choose when we would light the candles. We each […]
Shopping for a good story
For many people, shopping is a sport. Some glory in finding a bargain, others, well, I really don’t get it. At all costs, I avoid: department stores with wall-to-wall people and loud muzak that now consists of songs I actually know dressing rooms with curtains that don’t close or doors that don’t lock grocery stores, […]
