Saturday, April 23, 2022

Kitchen music

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For my birthday,  Mike bought me an old-school clock radio that I've placed in the kitchen. It's because when we were in NYC, I inst...
Friday, April 15, 2022

Ocean Vuong on "the wound that ... will never heal"

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Monday, April 11, 2022

Lost garden (Avon Journal)

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April 11, 2021 Avon journal My mother laments the state of the garden, but my father’s stewardship saw to it that the yard today is positi...
Sunday, April 03, 2022

4 months in, requiem (again) for the man who taught me 'requiem'

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I keep a digital journal in a Word file on my computer, and when I have written 30 pages or so of journal entries, I start a new file. It...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Ode to The Straight Story

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I guess you could call it tears therapy. Or cinema therapy. Either way, it's also part two of this here Arts-in-Grief "newsletter...
Friday, March 18, 2022

When an ex-reporter like me tries to write fiction

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“Well, is he crooked or not?   My editor didn’t bother waiting for me to walk across the newsroom to his desk. He'd spotted me the mom...
Friday, March 11, 2022

NYT: "Watching the U.S. Election While Irish" (file under 'articles I love')

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This is the art of writing a newspaper column -- or an op-ed -- at its finest: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/opinion/cnn-election-irela...
Sunday, March 06, 2022

To be denied their Dutchness (Auster)

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From Paul Auster's memoir, T he Invention of Solitude : “Nearly everyone speaks excellent English in Amsterdam. This ease of communica...
Wednesday, March 02, 2022

The Obituary We All Need (to Write)

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I couldn't let the tiny, standard-issue obit that ran on the funeral website be the last word about my Dad. I had too many other things ...
Saturday, February 12, 2022

I've won an NEA literature grant for translation!

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Third time's the charm, I guess. I've won a 2022 NEA translation grant to continue my work translating the short stories of an Ital...
Monday, January 31, 2022

My mourning soundtrack

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The mourning began before he ever died . Maybe that's the way it always is. In our case, my father  lingered for more than a year, as he...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Caro diario (Day 7): Museo Italo Americano in SF

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Writing in my journal this week -- in Italian. Join me? In Italian or any language. Eccoci: Caro diario, Sono ormai (purtroppo!) abituata a ...
Monday, January 24, 2022

Caro diario (Day 6): ho dimenticato!

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Writing in my journal this week -- in Italian. Join me? In Italian or any language. Eccoci: Caro diario, Dovevo inserire un argomento o un p...
Saturday, January 22, 2022

Caro diario (Day 5): Archivio dei diari

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Writing in my journal this week -- in Italian. Join me? In Italian or any language. Eccoci: Caro diario, Scrivo di nuovo di un diario ovvero...
Friday, January 21, 2022

Caro diario (Day 4): Cesare Pavese e il mestiere di 'poetare'

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My plan? To write in my journal and to simply do so in Italian. Do you want to join me? In Italian or any language you want to practice. Her...
Thursday, January 20, 2022

Caro diario (Day 3): lo 'spartiacque' di Auschwitz

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My plan? To write as if I am writing in my journal and to simply do so in Italian. Do you want to join me? In Italian or any language you wa...
Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Caro diario (2nd installment): 'Anna' di Ammaniti

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My plan? To write as if I am writing in my journal and to simply do so only in Italian. Do you want to join me? In Italian or any language y...
Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Caro diario (Writing in Italian every day for a week)

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My plan? To write as if I am writing in my journal and to simply do so only in Italian. Do you want to join me? In Italian or any language y...
Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Translating the Untranslatable at the New York Public Library

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The summary of my research project at the NYPL is up on the library's site and it's called "Translating the Unimaginable: Holoc...
Thursday, January 06, 2022

Surviving without Dad: Month One

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It was a month yesterday since my father left us. We've survived a month. Maybe you can even say we got "lucky": Christmas and...