November 11, 2019
Gleanings
- Does a rainbow trout, like human beings, have to develop coping mechanisms to deal with the life’s great challenges?
- And thus Raphael became like my first boyfriend, someone I thought of fondly from time to time over the years, holding a special place in my heart although I had long moved on.
- Confessions of a Failed Self-Help Guru
- …it’s time we stop, as parents, crediting ourselves for our fortunate accidents
- The guiding principle of the bookstore, located in Toronto’s Roncesvalles Village neighborhood, is social justice, and it makes itself known right away.
- The university, I said, is not (despite what its denizens too often seem to believe) the only place you can have an intellectually stimulating life.
- The issue is women’s rights, pure and simple. Any campaign to reverse abortion rights is an attack on you — regardless of your personal beliefs.
- Almost without fail, the more bafflingly short an ingredient list and the more stunningly delicious the outcome, the more likely it is to rivet me.
- Which is a roundabout way of saying that time has passed, but yes, a month ago we were by the sea.
- How in the name of squatty pink-frilled alarm clocks?
- I’ve read other translations but this one has always felt like Homer to me.
- Because it feels weirdly lovely to be blogging from Rome and just sharing these things that I’m basically almost crying about when I see them. Rain on a windshield.
- “The book didn’t help my confusion at all, but I kind of think that’s okay,” she says.
- Life is too short for tepid colour combinations like greiges and taupes.