by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 14, 2008 | continuous life |
Tim O’Brien, in The Things They Carried: “It’s now 1990. I’m forty-three years old, which would’ve seemed impossible to a fourth grader, and yet when I look at photographs of myself as I was in 1956, I realize that in the important ways...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 7, 2008 | life, time |
On NPR, on September 20th, I heard David Sedaris say that he was no different than anyone else except that he kept a notebook in his pocket. He noticed and he recorded. In the May 8, 2006 issue of the New Yorker, he wrote: “For the past ten years or so, I’ve...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 4, 2008 | life |
Life is weather. Life is meals. Lunches on a blue checked cloth on which salt has spilled. The smell of tobacco. Brie, yellow apples, wood-handled knives. James Salter, in one of my all-time favorite books, Light Years. I met James Salter in Portland in July of 2004,...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 27, 2008 | continuous life |
I used to copy down favorite passages in a notebook. A small five by seven three-ring binder. I could move the pages around, organize them. I haven’t written in it in a while. I’m not sure why. Maybe too busy writing myself. Anyway, I was looking...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 26, 2008 | life, poetry |
One of my favorite poems is “Otherwise” by Jane Kenyon. It begins “I got out of bed on two strong legs. It might have been otherwise.” For the complete poem, please go to http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/050.html. “Otherwise” first...
