“Many people do dumb things in their teenage years, but most have the sense not to cast them in concrete, which they then have to drag around for the rest of their lives… “At sixteen, I got married for the first time. My then-husband-to-be and I thought that the woman should not take the man’s…
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the imperatives of beans (with some Escher, Dylan Thomas, and Tao thrown in)
This post began as an answer to a comment on the previous post, identity gumbo. But before I tell you why, a small news flash: yesterday the seeds of the Black Valentine pole beans I poked in the ground maybe a week or ten days ago emerged. The seedlings pushed up through the earth, some…
“You’ll get a big kick out of this.”
This was the subject line on an email from Patti, who handles sales of my, my late husband’s, and my mother’s out-of-print books. Some we still have actual copies of; others we are set up (thanks to Patti) to offer digital copies of, for downloading. (My mother, BTW, is the children’s book writer Charlotte Zolotow….