A minute of one’s own
The month of March was marked down in my agenda as the month when I do a good round of editing to Eye, my second and very unfortunate book. I don’t have any courses during this month, not of a…
Tag life and art while female
Disagreeing with Virginia Woolf
During this winter vacation I read Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own,” a book that has been on my reading list since forever. Big round of applause for this minuscule achievement! Right. Thanks. Moving on.My life’s work
What is your life’s work? Do you have an answer to this question? I often lose sleep at night thinking about this. It is basically the same question as “when on your death bed, what would you think made your…
Someone else’s
I have been thinking about motherhood. Shocker, right? Particularly about feminism and motherhood. About the expectations I had while growing up and after getting married, and about the reality of my life after giving birth to my first child. Are…
A woman’s writing vs. her children
I have been thinking about a recent debate regarding women authors and childbearing. Author Lauren Sandler wrote an article for The Atlantic professing that the secret to a successful writing life for a woman is to have only one child, giving as…
New year, old thoughts
Happy New Year, everyone (one?)! 2013. It already looks like it’s going to be a very full and interesting year. I am working on the print edition of Spell of Blindness and hoping to make that available really soon (as…