A Year of One's Own

• A completed novel draft and a bit of fear. 1 week ago It is done! Finally. Well, a first pass of the novel is, anyway. Now begins the hard part. For those of you who don’t know how a nobody (like me!) does anything with a novel, here’s a rough idea. A lot of people self-publish, or directly contact small, independent presses to convince...
• I decided to film a normal day in Paris, just to... 3 weeks ago I decided to film a normal day in Paris, just to remember.
• An awful day and horrifying thoughts. 2 months ago What a truly awful day. This morning, I read the NYT piece in which Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel revealed the horrific conditions of Guantanamo Bay. Many people, I imagine, wanted to vomit and cry after reading, like I did. Then, news of the Boston bombings struck, and horror spread further. I...
• Working girls and paper knickers. 1 month ago Yesterday, Cecilia and I found ourselves wearing nothing but precarious pairs of paper underwear, while having our whole bodies lathered by a total stranger. To explain: First, we are in Marrakech. Girls’ weekend! Second: yesterday, it was raining, we were recovering from the night before,...
• Pretentious, egotistical, and other words that describe me. 3 months ago I wrote a post today. I posted it. Then someone told me it was an egotistical and pretentious load of nonsense. I re-read it. It was. To clarify, all I was thinking about today was how unpredictable the future is. How a tiny change (a chance encounter here, a stumbling across something online at...

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