Dear Betsy,
Integral to every author’s publicity “platform” is a smoldering photo of the writer after he has finished a 3-day stint of sleepless novelizing, but before he has tortuous, intellectual sex with you, the reader. But as a woman, comma, I resent and/or reject that image. (Even though my name is Robin and once someone wrote [...]
After years of wheedling, I still don’t have my own backhoe, so I can’t bury my time capsule. Besides, I want it opened in 6 weeks, not 6 millenia. So maybe I should just put the “materials” in a Mason Jar on the kitchen counter where everything else gets so efficiently lost in the sands [...]
This week my elementary Judaism leads me to Rosh Hashana, which starts this year at sundown on September 22. With Yom Kippur, ten days later, it constitutes the Days of Awe, and not all the awe is of the oh the lovely fireworks variety. Part of it is seeking out people you’d rather not talk [...]
