If ever in the small hours of the night, when everyone else is either snoring or rolling over, you find yourself waking, spinning into the darkness, staggering to the bathroom while smacking into walls, grabbing the bucket or watering can you've left sitting next to the tub to remind you the plants are thirsty, but … Continue reading Vertigo – Not For the Weak of Heart
Tag: Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf – Foxhunting, Golfing, and Street Haunting
Once again, I dip into Woolf's writings and find treasure, of the wry variety. Here's the opening paragraph from her essay, "Street Haunting," collected in The Death of the Moth and Other Essays: "No one perhaps has ever felt passionately towards a lead pencil. But there are circumstances in which it can become supremely desirable … Continue reading Virginia Woolf – Foxhunting, Golfing, and Street Haunting
Virginia Woolf: Words Fail Me
Leave it to the BBC to store bits of Virginia Woolf's psyche for us mere mortals to sift through on a whim. The broadcast of Woolf's essay, "Craftsmanship," was first heard on April 20, 1937. Five years later, it was published in a book called "The Death of the Moth, and other essays," the year … Continue reading Virginia Woolf: Words Fail Me
Jilanne Hoffmann 