I made a great surrender to life in Amherst today: I got my hair cut.
Most men, on reading this sentence, might not get it. But I suspect that most women will. With apologies for the gender-typing, hair occupies this privileged psychic space for women. Getting your hair cut is not an errand, it’s a statement. [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Hair, the long and the short of it
Posted in Uncategorized on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
And who is my neighbor?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After six months of inattention, our next door neighbor decided to introduce herself on Sunday. Of course, we already knew plenty about her. Neighborhood gossip (that is, gossip from the neighbors to the other side) had told us that she is a famous scientist and the ex-wife of an even more famous one. In September, [...]
On banjos
Posted in Uncategorized on January 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have to share this here, simply because its too strange not to share somehow . . .
I had another supply gig this morning, and the organist was away today for some reason, and so we sang accompanied by a banjo. The hymns, however, were not changed–we plowed right through “Crown Him with Many Crowns” [...]
On butterflies
Posted in Uncategorized on January 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, we decided to take a family outing to “Magic Wings,” a butterfly conservatory about twenty minutes north of here. It looked fairly unpromising from the outside, like an overgrown barn. But the inside was a total revelation: two long rooms full of tropical plants, odd little ground birds running all over the place, a few lizards, [...]
Ah, the irony: a postscript
Posted in Uncategorized on January 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
And after writing that last post: I was ten minutes late for a job interview last night. Counting on two hands now.
I really, truly didn’t expect it at any conscious level. Ostensibly, the reason was a last minute stop at CVS for a replacement pair of pantyhose. I am beginning to wonder, however, if my [...]
Waiting
Posted in Uncategorized on January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I realized today that I have only been late a few times in the last six months. If I try, I can count the occasions on one hand.
This is in stark contrast to my life in Alexandria, in which I was ten minutes late (at least) for everything. A huge part of it, I always claimed, [...]
Holy Mysteries, of a sort
Posted in Uncategorized on January 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So, I have this supply gig this morning, and yesterday evening I plan to iron my cassock alb. I go to where it’s hanging in the hall closet. It’s not there. Well, that’s OK, because it’s probably hanging in the spare room closet. Except it’s not there, either. Or in my own closet, or in my [...]
The Voice, Round 2
Posted in Uncategorized on January 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have started reading Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love, which is at the top of the bestseller lists (or so the cover proclaims). So far, so good. I can see why so many people like it. I think I’m going to like it, too.
But it is making me worried that there is a generic voice [...]
The Voice
Posted in Uncategorized on January 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Four weeks, three cases of stomach flu, two major holidays, and one East Coast tour gone: all time spent away from this writing place. I came back home this weekend to a couple of discoveries. One, I’m out of the habit. (Although I’m pleasantly surprised to discover that writing has become something of a habit to get out of.) [...]
