THANK YOU TO everyone who reached out after I sent my letter last week! I might have exaggerated the level or nature of my miserableness...then again maybe I didn't. In any case, watching the Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show gave me enough joy to last until spring.
Michaela has a short week this week and next at school, so this letter is short on words (but long on cartoons).
Three Things Keeping Me Going This Week
- The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken
If there is such a genre as the "mommy memoir" then I am fully guilty of indulging in it, from Vivian Gornick's classic Fierce Attachments to the one that I read just last year by Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story. I am pleased to add McCracken's entry to this storied group. Reading this felt like hanging out with a close friend, one with a wickedly dry sense of humor. She intersperses stories about her mother with a trip she took to London after her mother died. This is my first McCracken. I had avoided her for some reason but now I'm eager to "crack" her oeuvre. (Too much? Sorry.)
- OLYMPICS!! I got strangely into curling this year? The teams are co-ed and I like watching them work that little broom thing.
- It's warm out. The days are lengthening. I felt sun on my face for the first time in weeks.
That's it for this week, my dear Mushroom Heads. I hope you have a great Valentine's Day, and President's Day, and Lunar New Year, and Fat Tuesday, and Ramadan, and Pączki Day!
Love,
Claire
