It’s been two weeks at my new job as PR & Marketing Director and Image Comics and all seems to be going well. As I noted on Twitter the other day, there’s nothing like a new job to make one swing between “I am amazed at my own competence!” and “I don’t know what I’m [...]
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Sylvia Plath has been a subject of conversation lately because of the publication of a newly discovered poem about her suicide by Ted Hughes. I had already been thinking about her, though, because of an article I read about a production of her poem “Three Women,” written as a radio play for the BBC. It [...] Last year on Mother’s Day, I was pregnant but I did not yet know. When I was buying supplies for my family’s party at Trader Joe’s, the cashier pointedly and earnestly wished me a happy Mother’s Day. She was a middle-aged black woman, so if it had been a movie on the Hallmark channel, she [...] Now that I’ve had the experience of giving birth to a baby and being a parent for all of fifteen weeks, I feel myself succumbing to smugness and nosiness. It’s a terrible feeling, to be that woman. Oh, now I know all about childbirth, you know! Let me tell you how I did it without [...] |
My Opium Den
After some thinking, I realized why I didn't finish this book (even as I racked up late fees from the library): I found the subject matter, the history of the region of England called Sunderland, interesting, but there was nothing about the...
Lovely art by Camilla D'Errico (who should be listed as a co-author) provide mood and texture for this story of a troubled young girl whose fantasy life becomes a bit too real when she visits a website called Make5wishes.com. The authors ar...
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