Had a breakthrough session with Sam yesterday. He is back in Brooklyn and had to return my call after I let the smartphone ring a few times. Turns out he was at his boyfriend's and had a lot on his plate in terms of him waking and answering the doorbell and just general distress around working all week from home ( Read more... )

Aaron and Regina Clock are going through an intense health scare. It's been playing out sub rosa for the better part of the past year as Regina has checked in and out of the hospital for a variety of symptoms that seem to immobilize her for weeks. We'd hoped after her last stay back in the summer that it was all just an aberration ( Read more... )

It threatened to snow Ash Wednesday, but the sun was out and I couldn't see any moisture at all on the pavement outside. I probably did bot have enough layers under my parka as I ventured outside, but I was late for my session with Sumner and didn't want to waste time putting clothes on when I wouldn't only be pulling them off again within a few ( Read more... )

I'm going to put it right out there: As a connoisseur of the Philip J.M. Barrie tale, I was thrilled by the new production. Allison Williams was an elegant and polished prep school version of the title character, but, there's nothing in Peter's backstory to suggest that he couldn't be from an upper middle-class British background. In fact, he ( Read more... )

Later, on Tuesday I left work to go to the nursing home, but, I must have over swiped my Metrocard (New Yorkers know all to well the mysteries attendant to properly swiping the electronic tape on the back of this card) which meant that I had to wait a minimum of 12 minutes before it no longer looked as though I had just paid a fare. But, instead of ( Read more... )

Play you dogs!

It's not over until it's over.

So far, Saturday Kitchen has been off-limits because...why? Because Bing gave me a fish-eye when I mentioned it during Fat Tuesday? Is that enough of a reason to stay away from it for the rest of my life? No, bicarbonate of soda, NO!

St. Michael's had its last barbecue of the season this evening and there was more dish than there was food. Here, in no paticular order of importance, are some of the things I learned (whether I wanted to or not ( Read more... )

So...I'm sitting here at my laptop, supposedly working on my young adult novel while instead gazing out my windoo at all the construction going on in Downtown Brooklyn, all the while thinking, "I really should be at Saturday Kitchen." That's where Crosby is at this exact moment. It is my old stomping ground as well as VRaptor's and PaleMale's and ( Read more... )

So...I'm writing a young adult novel and one of the things I've noticed about them is just how intensely sad they are. Even when they have happy endings, part of what makes them so compelling is their sense of impending loss and rites of passage. Think of the Epilogue at the end of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Or, Charlotte's Web. To me, ( Read more... )