The blood jet is poetry, There is no stopping it. You hand me two children, two roses. I found this quote again yesterday. Back in college, these were my favorite lines from Sylvia Plath, though I didn’t understand the children and roses part (on any level beyond the symbolic). The “blood jet” spoke to me [...]
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HAVING TEA WITH SYLVIA PLATH
November 7th, 2011 2 Comments
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What “Motherhood” Means To Me
June 14th, 2010 No Comments
Last night we started watching the movie “Motherhood” with Uma Thurman. We made it about 10 minutes before switching to Buffy The Vampire Slayer. “Motherhood” had the potential to be really good, really funny, and poignant to boot– had the writers and directors themselves been funnier and capitalized on the sheer absurdity of modern parenting. [...]
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Who Does She Think She Is
April 20th, 2009 2 Comments
What’s the best movie you’ve seen in the past year? For me, it wasn’t Slumdog Millionaire, which was riveting but shocked me with its gruesome child torture scenes. My husband and I went to Slumdog on a rare date night and for some reason were expecting a light comedy– we nearly walked out. Instead, I [...]
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