Me too. I’m only 7 mins in and I’m like, noooo! I need to know what happens. (I think Pru will betray her 🤫) an instalment every week pleade, Julia!!!!!!
THANKS FOR THE SHOUTOUT, Julia! I wish we could have hung out in Wilmette, too. Love your 7th grade novel, and I love Buffet Cuisine. An excellent story about buffet cuisine: Tobias Wolff's hilarious and awful "SMORGASBORD".
great saturday spiel & i love your embroidered shirt :)
i have that new yorker! with planet earth being broiled in the microwave on the cover. but i often skip the short stories if i don't know the author. "cynthia ozick," ok, gonna read her story now.
gonna check out the dardenne brothers, too.
i'm 64, & i'm with you. we can't change the world. it's often tragic but always fascinating just to observe what *is.*
Sinead O'Connor was a hero, years and years before the Boston Globe, before anyone was talking about the horrid Magdalene Laundries. and the morally bankrupt , misogynistic criminals running them. 5 *****s for that appearance. It might be the best thing that ever happened on SNL. ---( Besides, maybe, "The Continental" and the otherworldly prescient "It's Pat!")
Thank you Julia for yet another wonderful Saturday Substack Update. It is like a conversation with a dear friend who is a great storyteller, at least you feel like a friend and you are definitely a talented storyteller. I'm blown away by your Sinead/SNL story and very curious about Ellen's daughter. See you next Saturday!
Tom was so great last night wasn’t he? The story of the all the ‘signs’ that he was gay. Omg. I loved watching it with you so we could squeal in delight together! ❤️
I get the profundity of stoically accepting what you can’t change, and at 66 I get that maturity brings a greater impulse to write your novel instead of tilting at the world’s endless windmills. But isn’t it best to be a stoic pragmatist, and not conclude too soon that you can’t change the world... or perhaps inspire younger people to try? And write a novel that inspires in that way, just as Letting Go of God has inspired so many to accept responsibility for the world. Anyway... glad you’re on Substack. I missed an opportunity to meet you at a philosophy conference I had to cancel on, in Spokane years ago. Looking forward to following your next creative chapter.
I know. I do want to be a Stoic Pragmatist, in fact, I am a Stoic Pragmatist! I agree with you and maybe find some compromise within myself. Thank you for being so complimentary about Letting Go of God. I do want to do things that I think could help our world to be more the way I think it should be, and the way it surely would be better. If only I had more power! But I have been experimenting with giving up on that idea of any activism, and it has resulted in a reduction of stress and a lot more creative energy. So, hmmm. I have to think on it more. A philosophy conference? I wonder what that was? Anyway, sorry to have missed you.
I understand. Personal stress-reduction and creative energy are also essential for the good life. It’s a happy convergence when you can lower stress, raise energy, AND help “save the world”...
It was a meeting of the society for the advancement of American philosophy, but I may be misremembering that you were to be in attendance. I was going to talk about your work, though, before circumstances required me to cancel.
Ok. Firstly Yay! So glad you‘ve finally got that sorted. I’ve been shouting at the screen for weeks. You’re definitely a ‘novel‘ woman. 😁 stop worrying about whether it will be good and just enjoy writing it. Many things can be sorted out in the edit. Just don’t enjoy the solitude too much, you‘ll end up being that woman, who hasn’t left her house in years.
Love the novel have written a comment below
You have such a fun life - can‘t believe you were actually there when she did it.
Anyway, if you like a good storyteller you should listen to Sarah Kendall. Australian comedian, brilliant.
OMG I want to hear the whole Daughter of Ellen!!
Me too. I’m only 7 mins in and I’m like, noooo! I need to know what happens. (I think Pru will betray her 🤫) an instalment every week pleade, Julia!!!!!!
Yes!
Maybe read a chapter every week?
THANKS FOR THE SHOUTOUT, Julia! I wish we could have hung out in Wilmette, too. Love your 7th grade novel, and I love Buffet Cuisine. An excellent story about buffet cuisine: Tobias Wolff's hilarious and awful "SMORGASBORD".
also, that account of the night with Sinead and the pope pic--wowzer
That lampshade is flawless.
Anthropologie online Home Section. I know. 10 years ago I found it there and ordered it. I will have it forever.
great saturday spiel & i love your embroidered shirt :)
i have that new yorker! with planet earth being broiled in the microwave on the cover. but i often skip the short stories if i don't know the author. "cynthia ozick," ok, gonna read her story now.
gonna check out the dardenne brothers, too.
i'm 64, & i'm with you. we can't change the world. it's often tragic but always fascinating just to observe what *is.*
Sinead O'Connor was a hero, years and years before the Boston Globe, before anyone was talking about the horrid Magdalene Laundries. and the morally bankrupt , misogynistic criminals running them. 5 *****s for that appearance. It might be the best thing that ever happened on SNL. ---( Besides, maybe, "The Continental" and the otherworldly prescient "It's Pat!")
Thank you Julia for yet another wonderful Saturday Substack Update. It is like a conversation with a dear friend who is a great storyteller, at least you feel like a friend and you are definitely a talented storyteller. I'm blown away by your Sinead/SNL story and very curious about Ellen's daughter. See you next Saturday!
Tom was so great last night wasn’t he? The story of the all the ‘signs’ that he was gay. Omg. I loved watching it with you so we could squeal in delight together! ❤️
I get the profundity of stoically accepting what you can’t change, and at 66 I get that maturity brings a greater impulse to write your novel instead of tilting at the world’s endless windmills. But isn’t it best to be a stoic pragmatist, and not conclude too soon that you can’t change the world... or perhaps inspire younger people to try? And write a novel that inspires in that way, just as Letting Go of God has inspired so many to accept responsibility for the world. Anyway... glad you’re on Substack. I missed an opportunity to meet you at a philosophy conference I had to cancel on, in Spokane years ago. Looking forward to following your next creative chapter.
I know. I do want to be a Stoic Pragmatist, in fact, I am a Stoic Pragmatist! I agree with you and maybe find some compromise within myself. Thank you for being so complimentary about Letting Go of God. I do want to do things that I think could help our world to be more the way I think it should be, and the way it surely would be better. If only I had more power! But I have been experimenting with giving up on that idea of any activism, and it has resulted in a reduction of stress and a lot more creative energy. So, hmmm. I have to think on it more. A philosophy conference? I wonder what that was? Anyway, sorry to have missed you.
I understand. Personal stress-reduction and creative energy are also essential for the good life. It’s a happy convergence when you can lower stress, raise energy, AND help “save the world”...
It was a meeting of the society for the advancement of American philosophy, but I may be misremembering that you were to be in attendance. I was going to talk about your work, though, before circumstances required me to cancel.
Wonderful. Enjoyed every word. "Daughter of Ellen" must be the next Substack!
RIP Sinead. Read Sarah Kendall anyway.
Had a feeling you'd have a Sinead SNL story. Congrats on the novel.
Ok. Firstly Yay! So glad you‘ve finally got that sorted. I’ve been shouting at the screen for weeks. You’re definitely a ‘novel‘ woman. 😁 stop worrying about whether it will be good and just enjoy writing it. Many things can be sorted out in the edit. Just don’t enjoy the solitude too much, you‘ll end up being that woman, who hasn’t left her house in years.
Love the novel have written a comment below
You have such a fun life - can‘t believe you were actually there when she did it.
Anyway, if you like a good storyteller you should listen to Sarah Kendall. Australian comedian, brilliant.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08g5h2g
Super cute shirt! :-)
You're cute. Of course you can write a novel at 63, Julia. You have a wealth of wisdom and wit to add in a story. Why even question this, I say ! :-)