I just listened to the uncut version of this interview on OnBeing. The conversation focuses on the pandemic’s impact on the nervous system and how that effects our lives. Christine Runyan is a clinical psychologist and professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She is
I fell in love with Ross Gay when I heard him interviewed on OnBeing. I immediately ordered his book of essays, The Book of Delights, which I highly recommend. It is packed with joy! Gay is primarily known as a poet. I heard him interviewed again recently. He published a book-long poem titled Be Holding.
I have just finished reading and exploring Hafizah Geter’s debut collection of poems and I am knocked flat. These poems traverse many landscapes, internal and external/brutal and beautiful. These are spare pieces that pack a big punch as she deals with issues of love, loss, racism, abuse, police brutality, family. They are, at once, accessible
Great article to kick off National Poetry Month: https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/mary-schmich/ct-met-schmich-national-poetry-month-9-poems-20210409-y6t2e2ihxjct7ojin2fnj4rn2u-story.html
I thought I’d pass on this whimsical bunny painted by my dear friend and artist Jean Forsberg. Happy Easter, Happy Spring!
I want to share my pleasure when looking at these stitched pieces. https://conduitgallery.com/viewing-rooms/lap-work-pandemic-stitching
I have been listening to some of the half-hour “Doc Chat” weekly episodes of the New York Public Library’s Center for Research in the Humanities. One of them was about the library’s Picture Collection (1.5 million images strong) and the way in which it is organized. Librarians have made and make decisions about which of
I hosted Joan Frank on Meraki Radio: Perspectives after reading her most recent book, The Outlook for Earthlings. The book is about two female friends and their different paths in life, their varying philosophies on how to live. Mel is insular, perhaps pathologically so, and Scarlet is flippant and feeling– verbal. The story ebbs through
This lovely book, this lovely, sad book, really struck me. Its beautiful, spare language is never overwrought, even as it pulls us through great sorrows, great loss. I loved that about it because it ultimately tells a very sad story, the story of a child abandoned by his mother. But I never felt pummeled by
Seasonal Reading 