Jeanne Koré Salvato

merci

merci

fter reading last week’s post, a friend sent me this advice: In spite of it all, we have to have a laugh. MERCIOne thing that’s funny is the French word, “merci.”  Now you might be saying to yourself, “Even I know that word means thank you?” your voice rising at the...
do readers have an age?

do readers have an age?

’d like to begin with my brainy, fun cousin’s remarks about readers of a certain age. In the context of her views on No One is Talking About This, an Internet novel, really, and one written by Patricia Lockwood, who at the time of the telling appeared to be about 36...
no one is talking about this

no one is talking about this

his is the third in our series of novels, which, when we have read the seven contestants for the debut novelist prize, we will present the people’s vote.  ASIDEReader:  I am not reading these books.Me: It doesn’t matter.Reader:  Wait, what?Me:  You...
waiting4

waiting4

’ve been thinking about what it must be like to be waiting for Godot.  What are we waiting for again? STORYToday I was waiting in line for a woman to find her credit card at the grocery store.  She asked the cashier to look at a different card, a debit...
awol

awol

ast week you may (or may not) have gleaned that your faithful blogist had moved that very day from Webster, NY, to Rochester, NY, about a half an hour drive away. I say “may not” have gleaned this information because while I made a riff on moving, which...