Thomas Fink and I are proceeding apace with the series of collaborative sestinas. We just settled on the end-words for #6.

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Check out Lars Palm's blog for Alex Gildzen's fun new e-book of photos--my non-photogenic self is included. As are Geof Huth, Kevin Killian, Richard Lopez, Thomas Meyer, Mark Young and others. The Mark Young photo is my favorite of the lot. Though, I have to say, Mr. Lopez is looking particularly dapper in a photo with his young son.

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Single digit temperatures here. At least today the wind's not blowing yet.

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A Taste for the Secret is a book of interviews with Derrida which was originally published in Italian as Il Gusto del Segreto. It's a very good book of interviews. I may want to write something about it later as I continue to attempt to figure out what interviews have meant to me. What I want to note now is how much more I like the Italian title than the English. Something about the expulsion of breath that it takes to say "gusto", I guess, conveys a more physical pleasure.

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I've been craving sea food lately. For lunch today had a couple dozen mussels. Mussels always remind me of my brother John. A day before he ran in the Boston Marathon for the first time we ate a mad number of mussels and calamari in a Massachusetts restaurant in the company of extended family.

I'm reminded too of eating excellent grilled octopus in a humble Greek diner with Geof, Nancy, Douglas and Barb this past Summer in Buffalo. That was a memorable meal of the first order.


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One of the hardest things to learn and re-learn about the practice of writing is patience.

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