Annette | June 29, 2006
I’ve known Harold and Barbara for so long now that it’s easy to take their remarkable goodness and kindness for granted. I think of Harold and Barbara, and I smile.
They are, simply, the best people in the world. Anyone who knows them will tell you that. Recently, in an emergency, I needed Harold [...]
Annette | June 26, 2006
“… I can’t listen to the news without a beverage – the dark tales of how Republican rapacity mated with Democratic desuetude, monitored by a press with moral Alzheimer’s, has imperiled the republic.”
That’s from “Eating Close To The Ground,” one of the brilliant essays contained in the collection, “The Raw And The Cooked,” by the [...]
Annette | June 26, 2006
……….. we all fell.
March 29, 1965 – June 26, 1967
Annette | June 26, 2006
Annette | June 23, 2006
He’s been busy lately with lots of new adventures in his life, so Little Boy and I haven’t been in touch much. But, when he surfaces, it’s always wonderful.
And he just dropped in to see what condition our condition is in. He had this, among other things, to say:
I’ve been watching the endless [...]
Annette | June 23, 2006
………. you’d better make sure, if you’re female, that it’s against your will.
And, above all, you’d better not enjoy it.
While reading the latest New Yorker, there’s a fine article by Cynthia Gorney about the new no-abortion-even-in-cases-of-rape-or-incest law in South Dakota.
The one that wasn’t supposed to become law.
The one that was mostly [...]
Annette | June 18, 2006
There’s no one better in our Congress right now than Jack Murtha, who has clearly had it with Fuckface and his accomplices. Rove makes his usual bullshit speech, and Murtha lets him have it.
Free speech in action, and I wonder what happened when Murtha found out that Rove’s a slimy old chickenhawk?
For a look [...]
Annette | June 18, 2006
Annette | June 15, 2006
Because of alphabetical seating, Anthony Aggon sat in front of me for six years – first through sixth grade. Then, Sara Jane Alex came to our school, and she replaced him. She had a bigger back than he did, but she was also a foot taller.
Now, I read his obituary, and all I [...]
Annette | June 11, 2006
It’s always nice to see the people who are in the vast minority of our country – the ones who continue to swallow every bit of the propaganda ejaculate dribbling out of the Oval Office – are gifted with opposable thumbs.
Not that they know what opposable thumbs are, but I digress.
With that evolutionary miracle going [...]
Annette | June 8, 2006
Annette | June 3, 2006
While reading this imaginative, lyrical, wonderfully entertaining book, “A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives Of American Writers And Artists,” I came across this small fact about Zora Neale Hurston, which I hadn’t known:
“Van Vechten, and his willingness to go with her in all her pursuits, were much on her mind in the year when she [...]
Annette | June 3, 2006
Annette | June 3, 2006
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