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April 2005

New York!

Sunday, April 24, 2005

"He doesn’t care where she goes…with the boys who look like girls…and cook very good things for her to eat like lemon jellies and marbled eggs, pretty dishes of candied violets…and doesn’t care where she got her slanted eyes and velvet voice box that sounds so sweet when she calls their names in the room with the red light."
--Shay Youngblood, "In the City: A Photograph, Evidence, and a Proverb"

New York, New York, it’s a wonderful town.


Hullabaloos

Sunday, April 17, 2005

“The ghost that got into our house on the night of November 17, 1915 raised such a hullabaloo of misunderstandings that I’m sorry I didn’t just let it keep on walking and go to bed.”
--James Thurber, “The Night the Ghost Got In”

Hullabaloos, to-dos, and romance at short notice.


Women With Attitude

Sunday, April 10, 2005

"When the nights have grown cooler and the gas wall unit bangs out the stale-smelling heat and we're on the brink of changes so vast it's hard to believe we don’t see them coming."
--Elizabeth McKenzie, "Stop That Girl"


Women's Friendships

Sunday, April 03, 2005

“They say, the smart dog obeys, but the smarter dog knows when to disobey. ‘Yes,’ she says ‘the smarter anything knows when to disobey. Now, for example.’”
--Amy Hempel, “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried”


The bonds of women’s friendships, strong and weak.