My head is in “The Stone Angel” by Margaret Laurence, racing through pages between the moments when Marie-Hélène is awake. I sit on the couch in front of the tv – tuned to some musical channel – while Christian burrows through piles of elementary projects. Occasionally, I’ll read him a sentence or two. “The poplar [...]
Category Archives: Reading
Reading
January 6, 2010 – 7:00 am
A novel. I indulged for the holidays. They’re over. Back to non-fiction.
Does it ever give thee pause, that men used to have a soul – not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech; but as a truth that they knew, and acted upon! Verily it was another world then… but yet it is [...]
Holidays
December 29, 2009 – 3:48 pm
We’ve been to Saskatoon and back, for Christmas, for my birthday, for Marie-Hélène’s grandparents… It takes eight hours of driving. And to our surprise, Marie-Hélène was really good.
The roads were bad a good quarter of the way to Saskatoon, which stretched the time to ten hours.
I read a good book with bite-sized chapters, and now [...]
Reading
December 16, 2009 – 7:00 am
For the up-to-date: Time Magazine’s Top 10 Everything of 2009
For the romantic: Pioneer Woman’s Love Story
For inspiration: Stephanie Nielson’s Story
For the student who cannot procrastinate her anthropology studying any longer: Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archeology. Exam is on Friday. Wish me luck!
Reading
November 9, 2009 – 7:00 am
Lonny is where I spent time while installers were putting in our new windows upstairs. An online magazine? Yes, and it’s perfect… interesting and clutter-free!
Reading
September 1, 2009 – 7:00 am
Sometimes getting out the door feels like trying to grab a fish, where time is the water and the fish is the opportunity. One night, I was exasperated. I’m more or less surrounded by books, most I’ve read, others are for emergency situations and still others are on the “must read becasue I must” list [...]
Short story
August 21, 2009 – 7:00 am
A man shuffles by. I notice that he’s hunched and wears a dirty navy overcoat. He’s unshaven and clutches a newspaper folded in two. I hardly notice him except for the distinct smell of sweat and smoke as I type a subject into the computer’s database search engine. He is the kind of person easy [...]
Reading
August 12, 2009 – 7:00 am
The Four Agreements – a self-help book I purposefully tell John about just to see his face say “lame”. Because John reads books like Broca’s Brain which require a general knowledge of quantum physics. And the closest I get to quantum physics is The Big Bang Theory on tv.