Seven years ago today, I went into labor at the deli counter in the Price Chopper. It was the one day ever that they didn’t offer to help me out to the car with my groceries (she remembers, vindictively)… which was okay, since this little lady didn’t arrive till suppertime the next day.
Her birthday is [...]
Archive for March 7th, 2008
Say hello
Posted in Parenting, Poetry on March 7, 2008 | 8 Comments »
A well-made story
Posted in Decades Challenge, Fiction on March 7, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I’ve finished The Ill-Made Knight, the third tale of The Once and Future King. In this story we learn about Lancelot and Guenever, watch Arthur’s England continue to evolve, and observe the ways he continues tweaking his Round Table philosophy.
It’s difficult to describe T.H. White’s narrative voice: startling, forceful, wry, deeply wise, matter-of-fact. It’s somewhere between Monty Python and… J.R.R. Tolkien? There’s [...]
