by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 5, 2015 | 1 true thing |
Simone de Beauvoir said, “I’m always in a hurry to get going, though in general I dislike starting the day.” I know what she means. The alarm, shutting it off, opening my eyes, feet on floor, body up, teeth, face, eye drops, vitamins, breakfast,...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 4, 2015 | 1 true thing |
So I’m down to the last hundred posts in this year of catching me–this year of looking at the photos, digging up memories, finding the words to fill in the spaces. I’m taking up more room these days. And I’m more comfortable. I’m...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 3, 2015 | 1 true thing |
When the rain stopped, I decided to do some running intervals–something I haven’t felt like doing in ages. I put in my earphones and set off into the wind, and when my phone beeped that it was time to turn around, I kept going. ~ 365 true things...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 2, 2015 | 1 true thing |
I’m not as smart as I thought I was, and I would think I could make headway* on this one, but I still seem to be losing ground. *This expression, first recorded in 1887, uses headway in the nautical sense of “a vessel’s forward movement.” ~...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 1, 2015 | 1 true thing |
Slate Magazine has a series I recommend called the Slate Book Review author-editor conversation. I particularly enjoyed the conversations between Meg Wolitzer and Sarah McGrath and between Claire Messud and Robin Desser. The most recent installment features Joshua...
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...
