I'm glad she and I completed this prior to October, when my bouncing baby boy was born. He is also, as the parents say, un-put-downable. Because he likes to be held. And he cries when he is not. Which makes interviewing people somewhat more challenging, to say nothing of toasting a bagel or checking e-mail. Remember all the bagels I used to toast, and all the e-mails I would check? Those were different times. Buttery, sticky-keyboarded times.
But we're learning. Becoming more dexterous with one-handed maneuvers. (As well as getting sucked into brainless cable television, an addictive, sugary phase I hope is temporary, but also kind of love, shamefully. More on that soon.)
So please go read about Aimee, who has this to say on dreams and art: "One thing that’s so key about dreams is they are reality and not-reality at the same time, and I think art is too."
Dreams! I remember having those, back when I used to sleep.
Here is the lovely Aimee Bender:
Author photo by Max S. Gerber
