In The Ballad of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest, Bob Dylan wrote:
He just stood there staring
At that big house as bright as any sun,
With four and twenty windows
And a woman’s face in ev’ry one.
I think Dylan meant a whorehouse. But to me the big, bright house is an apartment building, and [...]
Speaking of Dylan
April 2nd, 2010Except I mean more than that about solitude
April 1st, 2010Solitude comes in different shapes and sizes. I use the word to mean many things. It is not always about being single; it is not always about living alone. The solitude / privacy / space/ time I am talking about is the minute to yourself or the hour to yourself, the day to yourself or [...]
The Big, Big Question
April 1st, 2010This is the question I ask of you, as I tell my own story.
Over 80 years ago, Virginia Woolf introduced this daring concept : A Woman Needs Time Alone.
Here we are, in 2010, many complicated generations later. How do we fulfill that need amidst all the clamoring others?
Mom’s doing great. And blogging!
April 1st, 2010You may remember my Mom – ( I always think Mom and Dad should be capitalized ) — my incredible Mother, Phyllis Greene. We wrote Designated Daughter together. The best thing about the book is that she didn’t die at the end ! She is still here with us, blogging, yet. We had a [...]
I Can Feel Persephone Risin’
April 1st, 2010I can feel Persephone rising in the open windows and the four yellow sunshine circles , four days in a row, in the newspaper weather report. I can feel her , face to the sunshine, I can feel her in my jeans : Cut – offs back out, lighter, more faded and frayed, than [...]
Family History
March 29th, 2010Loving the resurgence of interest in family history !
Check out these books:
To Our Children’s Children by Bob Greene and D.G. Fulford.
One Memory At a Time by D.G. Fulford.
Check out therememberingsite.org, co-founded by myself and Dr. Sarah McCue.
Please and thank you.
Watch Who Do You think You Are ? Check out Ancestry.com.
Where I’m At
March 25th, 2010As far back as I can remember, whenever I pictured myself in the future, it was always as a small, weathered woman happily living alone.
I pictured this through a lifetime of relationships, a loving marriage and motherhood, through collaborations, commitments, career moves and middle age. I was energized by this image of my solitary self [...]
House Hunters
March 24th, 2010It is 7:00 p.m. and I am already snuggled into bed. I am a woman who lives alone and this is one of the perks. I squint, aim the remote at HGTV, and brace my back against the pillows for my evening Munch – like scream.
I am watching my favorite show, House Hunters. I have [...]
Secretly Seeking Solitude
March 5th, 2010I just saw a “subject line”jump up in my spam. I am always hopeful about spam. Maybe it really is something really good. However this spam subject line jumped out at me :
Sell My Unwanted Time
I did not go further to see whether the subject line reached its logical conclusion ; Unwanted Timeshare Weeks or some [...]