Monthly Archives: November 2010

I read this article in the Washington Post the other morning: U-Md., Pulitzer winner’s friends locked in messy battle over her estate, legacy By Michael S. Rosenwald, and it tripped a familiar theme for me. Katherine Anne Porter has been … Continue reading →

This point in November, before everything begins to build, this is a spare and beautiful time of year. I remember the Midwest in November, dove brown and gray and dust-colored, with the black trunks of trees, branches empty against the … Continue reading →

A colleague asked me if I had a blog, and I remembered that this one was in mothballs.  For any number of reasons, this seems like the perfect time to bring it back out;