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Old, New, Borrowed, Blue
My husband uses plastic sock clips to keep his pairs matched in the wash. From my years of studying him, I have learned that using the sock clips is more important than owning them. The organized are not dependent upon a new container or magnet board system, it’s their own rule-based behavior that keeps them orderly.
By 5 years ago in Motivation
Herbert Woodward Martin: Good Poems to Sell
Herbert Martin has “Good poems to sell.” His latest collection, The Shape of Regret ($16.99, Wayne State UP), includes this line spoken by the ghost of poet Edith Sitwell, perched “on her pinnacle/far from hell.” Maybe she’s just “Outside the Gate,” the title of another poem, where the speaker says, “I no longer hope to get to heaven./I want a chair placed outside the gate;/that will do.”
By 5 years ago in Humans
Leaves of Three
The white cane was pointing toward a small Moleskine journal in the middle of the sidewalk, as if they’d been placed there, combined. Felix looked around for their owner. Cars moved up and down the street. He saw a woman scan the traffic and hail her Uber, but then nothing.
By 5 years ago in Psyche
