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Borrowing Life
Ecotone Spring 2010
In the single extant interview Berry Morgan gave… she talked [about] rewriting. “You make a rough draft and then then the next time around you get a little closer and finally you achieve… the correct sound.”
Wheel of Fortune
The Boston Globe online March 31 2010
At that early hour only a few roulette tables were in use. At each sat ancient men and women, in black. I found a chair. My new companions viewed me with indifference. They were busy with pencils and notebooks, noting the number of the miniature trough where the ball landed and immediately engaging in furious calculations.
Turkeys, Strutting Around…
The Boston Globe online June 29, 2009
Sooner or later a turkey will show up on Halloween demanding his share of organic raisins. Another will strut into Town Meeting and participate in voice votes.
Governments of the People
Boston Globe online April 8, 2008
The look and feel of some towns is ultimately the responsibility of the unpaid unflagging, indecorous members of representative town meetings.
My husband’s mistress has broad ribs, sloping shoulders, and a rather flat neck.
The Boston Globe online June 28, 2007
Reminiscing with an Old Friend
The Boston Globe online May 5, 2008
The 23-volume Encyclopedia Britannica 1945 – who will take our old friend? My children freely consulted the books – yellow highlighting was applied to some of the pages. This disfigurement does not reduce the heirloom’s selling price, which is zero.
Worth the Detour
Swink online May 2007
But stop! Listen to that wretch on a harmonica—perhaps we could pay him to go elsewhere. How peaceable this narrow churchyard. Saint who? Look at that noble sycamore…At a café table an old woman lights an older woman’s cigar...
The A Room With A Phew
The Boston Globe online September 12, 2007
Smokers know the danger of tobacco, which can cause cancer; they know as well the sweet usefulness of the nicotine residing in the tobacco: a habit‑forming alkaloid which clarifies, soothes, and heightens, all at the same time.
Their Immortal Words
The Boston Globe online November 25, 2007
I feel like the Queen – “My Word” is broadcast for me alone, as far as I know – and I’d like to give WBUR a knighthood. I am charmed to notice that things that were once said to matter – familiarity with epigrams, knowledge of rhetorical devices and their terrifying names, the ability to display a rich vocabulary without rodomontade – seem to matter still.
My Little Prince
in Go Your Own Way: Women Travel the World Solo, Seal Press 2007
I saw photographs of the members of Saint-Exupéry’s reconnaissance unit, the GC II/33. He flew with the II/33 from 1939 until the fall of France, and from 1943 until July 31, 1944, the date of his disappearance into thin air. The remains of his downed plane were not discovered for sixty years.
Playing Second Fiddle to the Viol
The Boston Globe online June 28, 2007
My husband’s mistress has broad ribs, sloping shoulders, and a rather flat neck.