Miriam Glassman

Okay, so I finally watched it. And after about a minute and a half I turned to my daughter, Julia, and said, “I hate it.”  “I knew you would,” she replied. But I didn’t click it off. I didn’t. I sat there,and watched it in its entirety, though at times I admit to turning to [...]

In this week’s The New Yorker (Oct. 19) Daniel Zalewski presents an excellent round-up of books that reflect the current parenting zeitgeist (”The Defiant Ones“).  At our library today, I came across How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You?, and was struck, as Zalewski was, by the pathetic eagerness on the part of the parents [...]

The night I heard they’d made “Where the Wild Things Are” into a movie

And read about Wild Thing Ugg boots

And faux fur wraps and wild claw jewelry

I shook my head and called them “reviled things!”

I sulked about it in and out of days, and through the weeks, wondering all [...]