July 1, 2017 (Saturday)

June 30, 2018

Today is Saturday, so I slept a little longer after waking up at 5:55a.m., and in that second little sleep, I had the most interesting dream. I was staying at my mother’s – at my parents’, I suppose, since the implication seemed to be that both of them were around, but my mother was the […]

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June 30, 2017 (Friday)

June 29, 2018

This morning I’m rushing here. W. has it in mind to get an earlier train, and I want to walk with him to get some exercise before the rising heat and humidity, forecast for today, really hit us. Yesterday, while A. was in Boston, I worked in the garden. Today I’m achy. It’s just appalling […]

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June 29, 2017 (Thursday)

June 28, 2018

This morning A. heads to the consulate in Boston to see about getting his third citizenship. E. will be able to do the same. They are so fortunate. Lottery win. Last night I boiled some corn, sautéed vegetables and steak. Easy. We ate outside, had some wine. I don’t know how I’m going to manage […]

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June 28, 2017 (Wednesday)

June 27, 2018

A crisp, clear, beautiful sunny morning. Who would believe it? Yesterday, as I went to pick up W. at the station, the sky just opened and dumped a deluge on us. Got soaked merely by going from car-on-street to front-door. And then back again, as I had lost my phone in the car during the […]

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June 27, 2017 (Tuesday)

June 26, 2018

New book, new journal. That’s another thing you don’t experience if you write a journal on your computer: that strange, wholly arbitrary sense of having “filled” one volume – one volume of what? – and moving on to the next. So this is my “next” right now, this moving. And as it happens, it corresponds […]

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June 26, 2017 (Monday)

June 25, 2018

At some point yesterday, during a walk W. and I took to D.-St.-Beach, back through town, all in a scorching midday heat which did however feel nice every time the sun was slightly obscured by an occasional cloud, I think I remembered what that idea was (the one I “lost” the other day). It had […]

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June 25, 2017 (Sunday)

June 24, 2018

That irritating moment when you realize you’ve forgotten what you think was an absolutely brilliant idea you had, which you were going to write down but didn’t because you foolishly thought you would remember… Whatever the idea was, it wasn’t about going to the Wenham Museum yesterday for a birthday celebration of Bennett (“Ben”) Merry, […]

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June 24, 2017 (Saturday)

June 23, 2018

I just realized, writing the date, that tonight there will be St. Jean-Baptiste festivities on Mount Royal in Montreal. At least there were the summer I lived there. And on a Saturday evening, too. I hope they have a great party. Everything feels unsettled. The theories, the facts, the lies, the certainties, the illusions, the […]

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June 23, 2017 (Friday)

June 22, 2018

Cloudy, cloud-marbled sky, like fatty tissue, a cut of meat photo-shopped to look like mother of pearl. It could still all be red in claw and tooth, of course, at least down below. Yesterday W. alerted me to a Wall Street Journal article extolling the real estate values of Victoria. The piece focused exclusively on […]

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June 22, 2017 (Thursday)

June 21, 2018

Another windows-open night of fitful sleeping. So much traffic noise from E.-Street. Not city traffic noise, although that’s pretty horrible, too, however potentially well-compensated or ameliorated by city amenities. No, this is just highway noise, cars and trucks at all hours, speeding, across potholes and uneven pavement, which make the noise even worse. Should I […]

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