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AN ISLAND OF THEIR OWN, PART I
[Bill and I met in April 2001. I was by then already committed to a fifteen-day summer tour of the Greek mainland, plus Corfu, with a woman friend. So Bill and I didn’t begin to travel together until...
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AN ISLAND OF THEIR OWN, PART 2
[…continued from yesterday…] Getting away for three weeks was no problem for Jake; he simply informed his patients that he would be gone in August and then found another shrink to cover for him in...
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HOTEL DU LAC: SHOULD EDITH HAVE MARRIED PHILIP?
Edith Hope is the main character (I hesitate to call her the heroine) of Anita Brookner’s “Hotel du Lac,” a book which one of my book groups decided to read during the time I was sick last month. I...
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THE GIRL WHO BECAME MY MOTHER (PART I)
You can read the probable date of of her birth and the date of her death on a stone slab forming part of a low wall at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The inscription on the stone...
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DIANE KEATON SPEAKS IN PRINCETON ABOUT GETTING OLD!
[A little something light after all that heavy reading about war, revolution and loss….] I wasn’t there. I wouldn’t dream of driving across dreaded Route 1 to the Hyatt Regency to squeeze myself into...
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IRONING, ETCETERA
I am full of useless information. That’s what happens as you get on in life. Gradually it becomes unnecessary to know the things you once learned in order to cope with the world you grew up in. For...
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WHY I DON’T KNOW WHAT SIZE I WEAR
It’s not that I change radically from shopping trip to shopping trip. And if you’re a woman of middle height, as I am, a numbered size gives you about ten pounds leeway up or down anyway. The...
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