Showing posts with label Diary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Diary. Show all posts
Sunday, February 22, 2026

Jeanne journals

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I don't like it when the word 'journal' is used as a verb.  Let's journal about this. OR: She spent the afternoon journalin...
Sunday, November 23, 2025

Why you should press 'record' on Thanksgiving (my Bos. Globe essay)

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I'm reposting  an essay I wrote for The Boston Globe about the power of our loved ones' words, & the treasure I found in record...
Friday, September 05, 2025

What I never say (Liz)

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I was thinking recently about my Edith Bruck translation and all of the public readings I’d completed when suddenly I realized I'd only ...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Tiny moments of exquisite beauty in Italy

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The apartment in Florence where we stayed this month during our trip to Italy had a top-floor terrace that stares directly at the Torre di ...
Monday, August 11, 2025

Taking the pulse of Firenze -- and my own

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Dante considered Florence a den of snakes, and I can see why, but he also lamented his exile from this bejeweled city and I can absolutely ...
Monday, August 04, 2025

Italy? Still stunning

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Of all the ways I've aged, perhaps the one I like best is how easily I am satisfied at times.  I've written before in this space abo...
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Friday, May 02, 2025

Happy birthday to Edith Bruck: 'My Author'

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May 3 is Edith Bruck's birthday . Edith, or "my author." That's how I refer to her, more often than not. And I am here to ...
Thursday, March 06, 2025

Birthday journal

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Normally for my birthday, I record an entry in my digital journal. A habit whose name in shorthand is, ' Birthday Journal .' Just a ...
Sunday, August 18, 2024

Il paese dei miei antenati

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Vado pazza per le parole, sia in inglese che in italiano. E una volta un mio amico fiorentino mi mandò una cartolina dall'Irlanda, e ci ...
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Friday, December 29, 2023

Montreal Journal & the joys of travel in 2023

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I go to Montreal to speak Italian and shop at an Italian grocery store. And this year, I got to do both when I visited the Francophile Cana...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Leo's Coronavirus Journal

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Well, it's not really his Coronavirus Journal -- it's an excerpt of my own journal that features pithy comments from Leo. May 12, 20...
Monday, March 20, 2023

Coronavirus Journal, three years later

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A publisher put out a call a while back for Coronavirus diary entries and I happily obliged since, of course, I'd been writing in my jo...
Tuesday, March 07, 2023

When I like to write

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I like to write in the morning after a fractured night’s sleep has left me feeling so emotionally fragile it feels like a form of grief. I’m...
Friday, November 18, 2022

Why does it have to be so hard?

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April 12, 2022 Lost diary entry Last night after a day of working in the garden in Avon and admiring my father’s books and running on the ...
Monday, November 14, 2022

Writing about Didion for CNN and revisiting 'The Second Coming'

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I spent yesterday writing a piece about the Joan Didion auction , and immersing myself once again in her seminal 1968 essay collection Slouc...
Monday, October 17, 2022

The Little Artist Whose Mother is Addicted to Post-it Notes

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Post-it art by our Leonardo.  Leonardo d'Atlanta. Now on display in the Gallery of the Master Bedroom. Oh I know Marie Kondo wouldn'...
Friday, October 14, 2022

Fall grief

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One day in Atlanta, circa 2015 Lost diary entry  It feels a bit like grief, the first warnings of fall -- that sudden chill in the morning a...
Monday, September 26, 2022

World domination -- from the Leo Journal

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Aug 14, 2020 Leo looks at the geese in the school field behind our house and says, “Geese are totally close to world domination.”  A few d...
Thursday, September 01, 2022

In Italy the streets are my lab (Seconda volta)

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The first morning in Milan (which is to say the first morning of the trip), I wake at 6:50 a.m. and head out  subito  -- immediately -- on f...