Look Around You – “Water”
Claire | November 23, 2010
Semi-brilliant Brit series mocking children’s shows while looking with new eyes at the world around us.
A Thousand Words
Quotidian
Claire | November 11, 2010
“I shut my eyes and she was again the same as she used to be: she was the hiss of steam, the clink of a cup; she was a certain hour of the night and the promise of rest.” -Graham Greene, The Quiet American
Rapprochement
Claire | November 11, 2010
I agreed to put aside the ruined vacation and he agreed to put aside the slips in bookkeeping. I admitted that some of my friends were not the best company — were, now that I thought of it, intolerable. And he admitted that his sister had never liked me from day one. I observed that [...]
Flavor of Life
Claire | November 7, 2010
Mmm, such a delicious day. Slept in for literally the first day all quarter without my body automatically waking me up screaming about things to do (slept in until almost 10 omg!). Woke up refreshed and calm, made applesauce pancakes which failed but I didn’t care, read more Portrait of a Lady, worked on poetry [...]
Flavor of Life
Claire | November 6, 2010
Today, I ordered Robert Hass‘s Sun Under Wood and Louise Gluck‘s The Wild Iris (for $7 each for used copies on Amazon, so not too bad). I also renewed my Writer’s Chronicle subscription, mostly because they sent me a pleading letter, and I did enjoy last year’s issues, even if I thought they were rather [...]
Things I’m Liking Lately
Claire | November 1, 2010
This quote. “Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about Love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass” -Max Ehrmann This poem from Blood Orange Review, especially the end of it. Catch a Body Salinger, I’m sorry, but “Don’t ever tell anybody anything” is [...]
