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I thought I knew what he was going to say: … the vending machines. Would you please watch my laptop? Yesterday I was sitting in a college library, waiting for my husband and doing some work on my laptop. I was in the “Please Talk” section of the library, sunk in a huge comfy chair. …
Rebecca Rasmussen is the author of the novel The Bird Sisters, forthcoming from Crown/Random House on April 12th, 2011. Her stories have appeared in TriQuarterly, Mid-American Review and elsewhere. The Real (Online) Me By Rebecca Rasmussen My husband walked in the front door yesterday to find me hunched over my laptop on the sofa, squinting …
The women are familiar in the way a child’s worn blanket or a mother’s favorite perfume is familiar. They are dressed comfortably, in slacks and soft shoes or sneakers. They walk in pairs or threes, reading the informative plaques and occasionally peering behind the quilts mounted on the walls, trying to see the backings. Unlike …
One of my current projects that is giving me greater joy and satisfaction than I ever could have imagined is transcribing my great aunt’s diaries, which she kept daily from January 1, 1920 through the middle of 1957, the year before she died. For this holiday weekend, I thought you might enjoy these posts from …