Liza

@Vanity Fair Last week, on a day when I was supposed to go to the library but ended up staying home after taking a quick look out my window – snow? sleet? rain? The darkest of skies, whatever it was, - I found myself eating lunch shortly before 2 pm, just in time for Fresh Air .   I love Fresh Air and Terry Gross and used to be a regular listener, a good twenty years ago. I remember listening while making dinner, after a long day in the library. Those days when I would spend hours in the...

As you may have figured, the title of this post does not refer to any kind of real-life situation. It is, I am sorry to say, purely aspirational. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be writing about it, three weeks – or is it four? - after my last post.     There was a time, a couple of years ago, when I committed to publishing a post every Thursday. I think I stuck to it for a while. I remember being quite consistent last year. Not including summers, family disruptions or any kind of school break, of...

I have decided to be revolutionary today and to write a pumpkin post a few days before Halloween. It is so groundbreaking, I might suffocate. What can I do? Inspiration has been hard to come by lately, and whenever I feel compelled to sit at my computer and break free of my family to-do list for a minute or two (Thanksgiving break! Christmas break! Nutcracker tickets that will be rare and overpriced because I should have done it two months ago! Birthday gifts for the 17-year-old! Missing...