Are we feeling the relief? Relief that we can see George Floyd’s face, his profile, that awful image of him under Chauvin’s knee – and feel some accountable closure to such a brazen murder?
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February 24, 2021
Posted by Mary Beth
Go ahead, ask me what I’ve been doing lately…
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The movie we watched is Nomadland directed by Chloe Zhao.
February 8, 2021
Posted by Mary Beth
My personal goal is to write this in one day. Sometimes my thoughts and ideas fly and dip like ‘always soaring never landing’ albatrosses – but do you know what happens to people who pursue albatrosses? They end up in the drink. Which is where more of my writing ends than you’d think.
January 27, 2021
Posted by Mary Beth
How many feelings have you cycled through since the Inauguration? I’ve been the Lance Armstrong (without the drugs or cancer) of ups, downs, responses, relief, and outrage.
I read that the Twitter word trending last Thursday morning was “slept.” As in “I slept well last night for the first time in four years. How about you?”
October 22, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth
I heard part of an NPR / Fresh Air interview with writer Ayad Akhtar so I borrowed the book from the library and read it.
August 21, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth
“A powerful, rollicking adventure that takes us across America and deep into one person’s life-and-death experience.”
Carl Zimmer, one of America’s foremost science writers
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Outpedaling ‘The Big C’: My Healing Cycle Across America
August 21, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth
Outpedaling "The Big C": My Healing Cycle across America Elizabeth McGowan Bancroft Press (Sep 6, 2020) Hardcover $28.95 (268pp) 978-1-61088-514-0
August 5, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth
I just finished reading “Red Dust – A Path Through China” by Ma Jain. It is a remarkable book that asks more questions than it answers.
June 4, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth
Started this yesterday and couldn’t figure out how to say it clearly. Let me try again…
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It seems as if nearly all social media has turned into a referendum and compendium of ways to think about Racism in America. This is good. This is necessary. Keep reading and keep sharing.
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May 11, 2020
Posted by Mary Beth
As you may have noticed, I didn’t post anything yesterday. I had a nice day with an early morning walk (before the hard rain aka snow), talking on the phone with my kids, and reading.