Lelia
Eudora Welty + Aries + Guilt
I’m entranced by Eudora Welty right now. Reading her short story "Livvie," I’m awed by how much Welty does in just ten pages. In One...
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Lelia
- Dec 16, 2021
- 5 min
Memoir, Elderhood & Saturn
Having read Angela’s Ashes and The Liar’s Club in quick succession, I was beginning to think that the only enjoyable memoirs overflow...
Lelia
- Dec 8, 2021
- 3 min
Memoir and the Moon
I used to pay a lot of attention to the first lines in books. I had a notebook where I wrote them down and classified them according to...
Lelia
- Dec 5, 2021
- 3 min
Dickens, Frank McCourt and Compassion
In Sally Ledger’s Introduction to Charles Dickens’ The Christmas Books, she writes, “Redemption through suffering is a significant...
Lelia
- Dec 4, 2021
- 2 min
Mary Karr, Memoir and the South Node
Ooph.I was relishing Mary Karr’s delicious language, but didn’t realize that this line I so admired - “Maybe it's wrong to blame the...
Lelia
- Dec 1, 2021
- 2 min
Falling in Love with Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald always wanted her children to be well-educated, to study foreign languages, to be employable. In her biography of...
Lelia
- Dec 1, 2021
- 2 min
Savoring Language
I’m learning to slow down and savor Mary Karr’s The Liar’s Club. It’s a good story that gallops along and then arrests my attention with...
Lelia
- Nov 3, 2021
- 3 min
Edith Wharton's Gardening Life
“I am intrigued by writers who garden and by gardeners who write. The pen and the trowel are not interchangeable, but seem often linked.”...
Lelia
- Sep 29, 2021
- 5 min
I Finally Read Eat, Pray, Love
And the most disappointing thing about the book is the way Liz Gilbert seems to suggest that in finding Felipe she’s completed her...
Lelia
- Sep 22, 2021
- 2 min
Soul Vows, Astrology and Bette Midler
Soul Vows is my favorite of Janet Conner’s books. I have gone through it twice and have twice crafted my own set of vows. I think that’s...
Lelia
- Sep 20, 2021
- 6 min
Elizabeth Lesser, Reading and Great Books
Elizabeth Lesser makes me hopping mad in Cassandra Speaks. As a Literature major with a Women's Studies concentration, I expected to love...
Lelia
- Sep 16, 2021
- 4 min
Astrology, the 12th House and Brené Brown
Brené Brown’s natal chart (available at Astro Databank) provides a deeper understanding of the 12th house - that hidden house where...
Lelia
- Sep 15, 2021
- 2 min
Feeling Adrift in an Empty Nest
My nest is empty and I’m grasping like a drowning person at anything that will tether me to a sense of stability and meaningful purpose....
Lelia
- Sep 14, 2021
- 3 min
Arbitray Stupid Goal and Attracting Perfect Customers
Artbitrary Stupid Goal is excellent. I bought it having seen that it's one of Austin Kleon's book club picks and I devoured it, both...
Lelia
- Sep 9, 2021
- 5 min
Self-Reclamation: Sy Montgomery, Danielle Henderson and Edith Wharton
My reading is taking on an unintentional theme. Several of the books I’ve recently picked up are by women or about women who’ve had to...
Lelia
- Sep 7, 2021
- 3 min
Wandering with Jean Shinoda Bolen, Charlie Warzel and Edith Wharton
As I read through Crones Don’t Whine by Jean Shinoda Bolen, I found myself dismissing it as fluff. It seemed to be just a collection of...
Lelia
- Aug 26, 2021
- 4 min
MFK Fisher, Aging and Poetry
Last House by MFK Fisher is good and sad. In many of the later essays, she’s angry at the aging process which for her was exacerbated by...
Lelia
- Aug 22, 2021
- 4 min
Books, Empty Nest and Gemini Rising
“They are busy and thinking of ways to be busier because such a space of nothing pressing to do would knock them down. No fields of...
Lelia
- Aug 17, 2021
- 3 min
Keri Smith, Play and Antidotes to the Wasteland
I’ve been thinking about Keri Smith’s Wreck This Journal as a way to pay attention and engage with my imaginarium but it occurred to me...
Lelia
- Aug 16, 2021
- 4 min
Diane Keaton, Ruth Reichl, Mothers, Self-Exploration and Story
I just finished Then Again by Diane Keaton and loved it. One of my favorite parts is Keaton’s assessment of some of the documentary films...
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