I listened to a podcast today by some academic librarians about fair use rules now in the pandemic. I think the rules – like the ones we follow at work or at home – are especially important to consider, maybe even to follow, because they provide structure and continuity but also because eventually, we will …
I said in my first post that I did not think of this blog as a diary. I am terrible about keeping a diary. I am not disciplined enough and I simply don’t have enough interesting things to share on a regular basis. My last post was May 8th, however, and that is not because …
The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted …
That’s the phrase: “The New Normal”. The norms of life during a pandemic. Everyone is trying to adjust to them, because to not adjust means you feel overwhelmed. Even when you feel overwhelmed and not adjusted in the least, there’s something soothing about the idea that this is a normative state to which we can …
The breadth of my poetry-reading is, to put it charitably, not much. And by “not much”, I mean: Emily Dickinson. Just Emily Dickinson. [Unless you count Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poetry, which I don’t. It is poetry, technically, but it does not plumb the mysteries of life. It is Emerson, in a different layout, but still …
In the middle of March, as shelter-at-home orders were beginning to roll out across the country, Fresh Air on NPR aired an interview with Max Brooks (1) that I have thought about every day since I heard it. Brooks is a novelist; he writes zombie literature with lots of end-of-the-world scenarios. I think he has …
It is late. Again. I have lots of things to write about and mull over but I need to get some sleep. So, I will be brief. I try to be grateful for something, every day. Every single day, I try to have the thought, “I am so lucky to have/be/feel [insert something amazing or …
I had as close to a normal day today, as I can imagine. I slept too late. I cleaned the kitchen. I rushed around trying to tidy the house enough that I would not feel terrible tomorrow (Monday). We picked up E at the airport. (That part wasn’t “normal” but I can imagine that happening …
