I revere writers and writing. Joan Didion. Aaron Sorkin. Joseph Conrad. I am trying to conjure a memory and with it a timeline. I was teaching, so it was before 2014. I would listen to NPR on the 35-minute drive to and from work. used to listen There was a tsunami in Japan. I looked it up. The "Japan Earthquake and Tsunami" happened on March 11, 2011. In the newsreel playing … [Read more...] about My Year of Magical Thinking
Aaron Sorkin
The West Wing
I started watching The West Wing again today. It's the fifth or sixth time I am watching the series, start-to-finish, not counting watching the series when it first aired on TV. Joe bought me the 25-odd disk box set of the complete series one Christmas. I played all the episodes probably on a DVD player connected to the TV in the living room, though I missed a few random … [Read more...] about The West Wing