What I learned from Holden Caulfield, whom I got to know in Mrs. Levinson’s 11th-grade English class (where Jane sat a few seats behind me, by the way)….
As a reader:
An honest-to-goodness unreliable narrator is …
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Lizzie and Jane are on the cusp of GenX. We continually search for our spot (past and present) in the great game of generational generalization.
Spirituality as continually redesigned by Lizzie and Jane
Lizzie and Jane’s brewing stew of back and forth trouble that hasn’t yet been loosed upon the world…
Because there’s nothing you can’t put on a list
Everything else Lizzie and Jane are thinking about…
UPDATE: And here it is! Follow the presentation of the new iPad and check out all the cool things it does! GDGT LIVE APPLE COVERAGE OF iPAD ‘Twas night before The Tablet, when all through our house, all were researching, with iPhone, not mouse. Thing One staying up, excited with Dad, while Thing Two gently sleeps, tiny tech dreams to be had… Steve J had assured us, it was the next biggest thing, bigger than iMac, and iPhone with Bling. An iPad? An iSlate? WiFi and 3G? To get better coverage, Verizon it better had be. When from Cupertino, there arose such a clatter, we rushed online, to see [...] Continue Reading…
image: Eric Zener "Air" oil/canvas Gallery Henoch Jane: So last week found me lagging in my reading of Committed. Lots to do around the house, with the kids, I wasn’t making the time …
Jane So I have to admit, before I even began to read this book, there has been a tremendous amount of conversation going on around me regarding Elizabeth Gilbert, …
Jane At the end of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, HBO aired the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 25th Anniversary concert. I usually approach these sort of things with a modicum of wary disdain …
…is what makes life so sweet," wrote Emily Dickinson (one of the literary luminaries Jane and I both believe worthy of goddess status). So true, Emily. (Jane: so true, Lizzie! LOL) And never is …
Dear Readers, Wow, it’s been a long time since we’ve been here. We both miss you, and posting here, terribly. Jane and I talk over the phone fairly frequently, and in amidst our respective trials …
I am designing a blog for a woman who wants to have a category for "parenting horror stories." Which got me thinking, oh gee, I have PLENTY of those. Which then led me to …
Here is why I am laughing today. Not sure if I feel old, or just wiser and smarter. (or is that, wiser and snarkier?) I had a most amusing encounter with the kid bagging my …
LIZZIE Dear Brooke, I first “met” you when we were both 12 years old. I was sitting in my orthodontist’s office, getting ready for the next wire-tightening that would rein in the ambitious, odd-angled …
JANE I am a frequent, if not daily reader of Salon.com and the other day I came across this article. It was an excerpt from the book, The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s …
JANE I love to read. I don’t get to read as much as I’d like, because I am a mom. Laugh all you will, but I miss my hour long commute into The City by …