by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 1, 2015 | How We Spend Our Days |
Annie Dillard wrote, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” On the first of each month, Catching Days hosts a guest writer in the series, “How We Spend Our Days.” Today, please welcome writer CARMELA CIURARU. If you have a dog or a child, you...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 30, 2015 | 1 true thing |
75-year-old Lily Tomlin (who is now 76) gives a stellar performance in Grandma, and hats off to writer/director Paul Weitz for getting Grandma out of the kitchen, as well as for a terrific screenplay and story. And for his almost all-female cast. Weitz says he wrote...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 29, 2015 | 1 true thing |
Today I did something I’ve wanted to do since I first started staying here a year and a half ago–jump off the end of the deck. Wooha! ~ 365 true things about me why this daily...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 28, 2015 | 1 true thing |
Back on May 16th, #124, I set out for the lighthouse across the bay. After that post, Cal texted that he wanted to walk out there the next time he came. So today we did–at dead high tide. We had to go through even more water than I did back in May. Lots of seals...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 27, 2015 | 1 true thing |
Cool weather and clear skies, Italian food and supermoon, football and fudge, and my sweetie. All is well. Goodnight. ~ 365 true things about me why this daily...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 26, 2015 | 1 true thing, provincetown |
I’m back in Provincetown, and it’s 52 degrees heading to 48–heaven. I have on a sweater and a jacket and long pants and socks. Quite a change from the flip flops and shorts yesterday. I can see and hear the water. And I’ve already eaten...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 25, 2015 | 1 true thing |
This red dress is hanging in my study. I found it a few weeks ago when I was going through a bag of my daughter’s old clothes that my sister was returning. It’s the same red dress I wore across Europe when I was 10 years old and then to a birthday party...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 25, 2015 | about the current writer |
I have been looking into schedules. Even when we read physics, we inquire of each least particle, What then shall I do this morning? How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 24, 2015 | 1 true thing |
Blank white price stickers from the grocery store. The roll of stickers was sitting there on top of the cereal boxes at just the right height for me to reach. They didn’t sell stickers at Woolworth’s, and they looked so cool… ~ 365 true things about...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 23, 2015 | 1 true thing |
I guess you can tell from my recent posts that I haven’t been doing much contemplating lately–nor much writing. Lots of living, though–waiting for babies to get born, rocking babies, organizing pantries, picking munchkins up from school, birthday...
