I’m obsessed with my books lately. I think it’s very hard for a writer to look around at her beloved friends and companions, her library, and say good bye to so many of them. It’s like a holocaust of literature. I’ve removed four bookshelves from my office (leaving two left and several piles and stacks […]
Books, blogs, and bees
I wrote a nice long post the other day, only to have it disappear when my blog program unexpectedly crashed. Whoops. Need to hit apple-save more often! The gist of it was, I abandoned a book recently. Gave up reading The Trial by Franz Kafka. I couldn’t get through it. I’m sorry– I’m sure I’ll […]
The Pain of Downsizing a Library
We’re downsizing our home, our lifestyle, etc. etc. etc. Everyone always talks about how liberating it is to release yourself of your possessions. And it is, indeed, spiritually a relief to let go of many of the things I’ve had cluttering my life for years. However…. Downsizing my library of the 900+ books that are […]
I am cut off.
I sometimes go days without any news. I skip commercials via Tivo, and I don’t always read blogs every day, and I unsubscribed from CNN because their RSS feeds had headlines and no news, and I had to go to the site, and they posted about fifteen billion times a day, thereby defeating the purpose […]
Moving Sale this Sunday!
This Sunday (April 22) at 8 AM, I’m having the first of many moving sales at my house. From the CL Ad: We’re moving, downsizing our whole life and getting rid of a TON of STUFF! Furniture: Bookcases Dressers Chairs Musical Instruments: Piano Folk Harp Mountain Dulcimers Bodhran drum Sheet Music Games: Board games Role-playing […]