Slide and sign
Tess "graduated" from Pre-K today. She’ll graduate from High School in the year 2021. I’ll be 90. Johnny Depp will be 86. And evidently the Democratic primaries will still be going on. School ended FOR THE ENTIRE WHOLE SUMMER at noon today, followed by a picnic for all the families …
Create crayon bombs
Corny, perhaps, but I love it: “Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air–explode softly –and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into …
What will it take?
Today, I feel the claustrophobic feeling I had when 9/11 occurred, when Katrina hit, when the tsunami swallowed people up, when I first toured Auschwitz as a teenager. It is the weight of knowing, the knowing we must all hold. Once we know, we can’t not-know. If my town were …
Book Tour News!
As the book draws near, I am beginning to get invitations to do readings and/or signings in bookshops and book groups across the country in September, October, and November. One of them comes from a bookshop in Augusta, Georgia. I wonder if there are any 37days readers in the Augusta, …
Missing and forever missed
Do you know exactly what you were doing and where you were twenty-eight years ago today? I do. Daddy is missing and forever missed.
She had me at “cow town”
Oh, my. I love to shop on Etsy. Real artists making art. I’ve made a conscious commitment to buy handmade. My dream is to create a small shop at 37day.net that will include only handmade objects that relate to my blog and book (did I mention I’ve written a book?), …
Eat raw tarantulas in hot sauce for someone
"That’s it!" "That’s the dress I want!" I peered at the computer screen over her shoulder, at a pink satin halter dress like Marilyn Monroe wore in the 1950s, with a crinoline petticoat underneath. "Does it come in black?" she asked, worriedly. "I’m sure it does…let’s see." We clicked through …
Ninjas!
Perhaps you will enjoy an earlier essay of mine that appears in this month’s Skirt! magazine! And thanks also to Skirt! publisher Nikki Hardin who mentioned 37days so wonderfully in her site’s morning muse today – as well as mentioning the beautiful, engraved jewelry made for 37days readers by artist …
Unplug the phone
The first principal of nonviolent action is that of noncooperation with everything humiliating. – Cesar Chavez I was in my early 20s, in graduate school studying literature (mainly American) and art history (mainly the figure of the artist in fiction). There’s a huge employment market for people who have studied …
Take a hot bath with your goggles on
It was a short, but memorable trip to Tybee Island. Cold ocean water, cool breezes, an Easter egg hunt in the sand. Bike riding all over the island. Treks up the 178 stairs to the top of the lighthouse. Homemade ice cream at the appropriately named "Sugar Shack." Kite flying. …
