A humane and deeply affecting blog
The accounts in the news today: Peggy Seltzer’s “Love and Consequences” meets Misha Defonsec’s “Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years” following James Frey’s “A Million Little Pieces” – all fraudulent accounts of one person’s struggles with life. Meanwhile, in the blogosphere us not so ordinary people ferret out meaning and truth from friendly exchanges, walks through the park, and a good meal – the drama is low key and almost comforting in its ritual of sameness – woman seeks love, city seeks recovery, children are born, work is done, friendships wax and wane, dogs play, and time passes.
Where’s my review in the Times? No reviewer claiming my blog is “a powerful story of resilience and unconditional love” or praise that it is a “humane and deeply affecting” blog (whatever that means). At least my story is true.
Or true enough.