November 11, 2016
“We need to know how to go about reaching the next days of our lives”
Maggie Smith’s “Good Bones” is going around again. W.H. Auden’s “September 1, 1939” is circling through social media, as it did after September 11. Why do we turn to poems […]
July 1, 2016
Get Back
I injured my back in mid-April—and my recovery, or lack of recovery, has been, at times, painful and demoralizing. So I’ve spent much of the past two months on my […]
November 25, 2015
Twelve Things
What follows are twelve things I’ve read or reread lately (and which may, on some level, speak to one another), and for which I’m grateful: Dean Young: Some things, like […]
July 31, 2015
Milo Forever
One of the nice but sort of odd things about being a KR blogger is that I can write about nearly anything I want. If I find myself at a […]