Showing posts with label Amy Hempel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amy Hempel. Show all posts

10 January 2011

Snow Day

No matter how beautiful the snow, how magical the world, today was a day I needed to be at school.  The musical I'm directing needs to be rehearsed--we open a week from Thursday--and I'm teaching Their Eyes Were Watching God, which I love, so I hate not getting to talk about it.

If you need something to do today, this is my pick for the most perfect short story ever written. I cry every time I read it: In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried, Amy Hempel.

Since this is the hand dealt to me, this is the soundtrack for the day: