how odd

 Today, after not writing anything but grocery order -- how massively exciting: two kinds of lettuce, watermelon cubes, weiners (if that's the way you/we/one spells it), and the very beloved (by me) taramosalata and types of cookies, about which I am most wild -- I seem to have misplaced not just what I was writing but the very idea of what I might have been writing about.

Well, at least I didn't say "penning"! I may be affected in some ways (don't know which, so I hope I'm not) but not in writing and we (I) notice I didn't say my manuscripts!! Can you imagine saying that about your own letters or reviews or whatever you write? Now I'm going to see if I can dictate this well, obviously I can dictate it, but did the thoughts come out the same way if you're talking or writing ? I do like to write and actually feel more like me writing, very often, than being now, that sounds ridiculous, imagine, thinking of being. It says you're using  too splendiferous or  enormous a word.

I should be able to write a short story no, I'd love to be able to write a short story, but I don't think I'm very good at plots, and I can't write poetry because I know I'm not very good at it. When I was young, I used to think I could try it, may be poems in prose. Long ago  had a conversation. or discussion (if there's a difference) with a very deservedly famous Columbia professor Michael Riffaterre  about that issue. Extraordinarily, everything with him became an issue, and I suspect that that's because he enjoyed issues. Whatever they were. I guess he was on the non-liberal side of politics, as of Education, but strangely, when I was having a very difficult time with life and divorce, it was Michael who walked with me on the beach, and somehow made me feel all right about life.

I should go and read the paper because I haven't started at all well today, but I did want to see if I could write, and I guess I found out I could, sort of.