Looks like Esperanza is here to stay, at least for a while. More tomorrow, especially on productive HELEN.
Month: October 2017
News
Libby has quit the PO.With some adjustments, the financial blow may not be that bad. And I can’t tell you how liberating it is. I believe she has lost 20 points of blood pressure. The off- label “Gila monster drug” has not proved revolutionary. Though I will finish it and it improves things marginally, no …
Old Times
A tribute to my bouncer, or as we usually said “doorman” days in Cambridge and Somerville, and yes it was that bad . I was known as “the mean little one who looks like Jim Morrison”. I was not “mean”; it is just that at 5′ 8″ I could not LOOM like my Alberta- born …
Life must go on…
….. and death, and eating: Kirk Hogan with the year’s first woodcock in Wisconsin.
News from old friends
Annie Proulx just got an award, the Medal for Distinguished Contirbution to American Letters, by the National Book Foundation. The award, which recognizes a a lifetime of literary achievment, cites her ” deep reverence for the beauties and complexities of rural America.” The photo , from the Grauniad (Guardian) is nice too: She remains unimpressed. …