Posts Tagged ‘Drusilla Campbell’
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Written by Drusilla on June 28th, 2014
So, last Sunday night, I’m sitting in urgent care for the second time in a week, waiting to see the doctor.
He walks in, holding some pictures, looks at me for one second too long for comfort and then sits down.
“I think you have cancer,” he said.
Filed under Family & Friends, Life Matters | Tags: cancer, Drusilla Campbell, mornings
I Think I’ve Fallen in Love with a Robot
Written by Drusilla on January 15th, 2014
I never thought I’d feel this way. My heart beats faster when I think of my Roomba.
Filed under Life Matters | Tags: anthropomorphization, Drusilla Campbell, Her, I, Robot, Roomba
What I’ve been reading
Written by Drusilla on December 28th, 2013
My last post came from New York where I spent four wonderful days enjoying the city and the company of a number of new friends. I visited Sara Weiss, my editor at Grand Central, and came home loaded with books to read. When I finished those, I bought some more.
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Filed under Book Review | Tags: Burial Rites, Drusilla Campbell, Elise Juska, Hannah Kent, Jami Attenberg, Jean Hanff Korelitz, Sandra Younger, The Blessings, The Fire Outside my Window, The Middlesteins, You Should have Known
I Woke in the Middle of the Night
Written by Drusilla on October 12th, 2013
…knowing that I wanted to go home, to be in my own bed with Art and the dogs and the trees.
Filed under Life Matters, Travel | Tags: anonymity, Drusilla Campbell, New York, the West
New York!
Written by Drusilla on October 10th, 2013
NY is amazing! I am in sensory overload, synapses whanging.
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Filed under Travel | Tags: Drusilla Campbell, fashion, magnification, New York, Travel
A Familiar Twinkle in her Eye
Written by Drusilla on September 13th, 2013
As I wrote last time, my mother had a fall in the late spring and what with breaking her hip and arm, a heavy dose (too heavy? maybe) of heavy drugs, she woke up in a very muddled state of mind. In the rehab hospital she had good days and bad, lots of paranoia. Many days she was just our mom — stuck in bed, unable to walk and not very happy about any of it.
Filed under Family & Friends, Life Matters | Tags: Dementia, Drusilla Campbell, memories
Challenging times
Written by Drusilla on July 13th, 2013
A few weeks ago my 96-year-old mother, Pat, slipped and fell in her cottage behind my sister’s house. She’d forgotten to wear her med alert necklace with the result that she wasn’t found until my sister got home, several hours later.
Filed under Family & Friends, Life Matters | Tags: aftercare, aging, assisted living, Drusilla Campbell, falls
Book Review: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Written by Drusilla on April 27th, 2013
I like looking at all the Kate Atkinson books I have lined up in my bookcase. Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Human Croquet. Emotionally Weird and more. The covers remind me of the hours of pleasure this author has given me. There’s a directness and generosity in Atkinson’s writing that makes her voice a stand out in a time when half the books I read are by authors striving for a barely nuanced, too cool style and the other half exhaust the reader with their individuality.
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Filed under Book Review | Tags: Book Review, Drusilla Campbell, Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
When She Came Home
Written by Drusilla on April 9th, 2013
Costco! Why does it keep dragging me back when I can’t get my tequila wings anymore? Saturday I was picking up three restored photos I’d taken down from the gallery in the upstairs hall. One, a black and white publicity photo from more than thirty years ago, was turning yellow but when I retrieved it Saturday, it looked brand new.
Filed under Books, When She Came Home | Tags: Costco, Drusilla Campbell, Publication Day, When She Came Home
Gone Girl with Me, Myself, and I
Written by Drusilla on April 4th, 2013
I couldn’t avoid reading GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn. For one thing, the title is very close to that of my last book, LITTLE GIRL GONE. Everywhere I looked – in magazines, in blogs and on Twitter – there was GONE GIRL and always there was lots of chatter associated with it.
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Filed under Book Review | Tags: Book Review, Bring Up the Bodies, Drusilla Campbell, Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, Hilary Mantel, plotting, Thomas Cromwell, Wolf Hall