Everyone Love Everyone
— Part of the December “If Only in My Dreams” series. Thanks.
Category: Big Question
In which we ask one question for month, over and over, to see how many ways it can be answered.
Real or Real-ish
In which I tried to explain to the kids that our little “artificial” tree is actually “real.” Existentialism 101 Me: We are putting up our tree this afternoon. Kid 1: … Read More
Gone the Mailbox
At the post office, the hated post office, where lines greet me and awful racks of greeting cards Line walls, ignored. The post office and its Perfume of desperation. The … Read More
Between Here & Handmade
I want things handmade. I want a life devoid of BPA-worries. I want the holidays decorated in popcorn strings and toes of knee-high socks filled with sticky penny candy and … Read More
Smashing November
What is the rush, Rima asks? What is the haste to make waste of Autumn? — Part of “If Only in My Dreams,” the December Series of The Big Question.
If Only in My Dreams: A Big Question Series
December is the month of dreams, of nostalgia, of memories, expectations, hopes and disappointments. We were all little children once… dreaming our dreams of light and mystery, wide awake under … Read More
America Wants… Support
This is a Guest Post by Matt Brotherton, part of the BIG QUESTION series: “What does America Want?“ — I don’t know that I can speak for everyone out there. … Read More
I’m Not Ready
Today’s post is part of the BIG QUESTION series for September. — I’ve been writing this blog for a long time. And I am not ready to admit what I … Read More
On Nostalgia: Wanting What We Already Had
No matter where we fly, we are never free of memory.
We Want to Be Heard
So, then we shout or drink and then shout. Because want to be heard. We are pilgrims in a wild frontier, uncertain of the path into the forest of tomorrow.
We Want… Beauty
Nightclub by Billy Collins You are so beautiful and I am a fool to be in love with you is a theme that keeps coming up in songs and poems. … Read More
More Less, Please
Today on “House Hunters International,” a family of four from near-Toledo were seeking a vacation home in St. Croix. They were a nice family: he an ER doc. She a … Read More
Big Question #1: What does America Want?
Welcome! It’s the kick off to my first month-long “Big Question” Series. During September, I’m asking writers, thinkers, poets, Buddhists — anyone, really — the big question: “What does America Want?” … Read More
The End of Summer
August retreats. It hands us back the year. Summer isn’t truth, but it is (as Harris Telemacher recites) “What we wish were true.” So many of us Shove out this … Read More
What does America Want?
Watching Britain riot — in the face of our own economic meltdown — has got me thinking about a core question: What do Americans want? What do we really desire? … Read More