I’m a big fan of “How I Built This”. It’s interesting so my brain listens to it instead of spinning, I know it ends up ok so I don’t have worry about what happens next, and Guy Raz has a soothing voice. But not the Advice Line episodes for sleep, then I worry about the entrepreneurs.

Also, haven’t late night bands changed. I had forgotten about Doc and the brass band. What musicianship.

Haven’t seen this for many years. It remains a delight.

Love this one by Raymond Carver

My thought was that if I were to teach this, I’d have the different list items on slips of paper and have students sort them. What groupings can you make? How would you order these? Etc.

The title reminds me of McSweeny’s articles.

Whoops forgot #PoemADayJuly

If I were teaching this, I would start with having students share which line they like the best, and then which line is the strongest.

Some things I liked about it.
The imagery.
The line “The flooded house and the scorched one”
The succinctness
The contrasts

But two, my reaction to terrible wi-fi is frustration (no wifi might bring peace or silence). So is it more about the space, the waiting, the buffering while you wait for what you’re searching to arrive?

Didn’t realize Padraig O Tuoma had a substack - this will be lovely to read.

“The committee weighs in” by Andrea Cohen.

“Wondrous” by Sarah Freligh

This one by Sarah Freligh captures loss so well.