Outtakes From a Marriage (2008)
“Ruby presented me with this interesting kernel of information that night when she wandered into the kitchen and discovered me watching a story about Matt Damon on Entertainment Tonight.
It was a distraction.
On weekday evenings, after I put Sammy to bed, it had become my habit to watch TV in the kitchen while Ruby did her homework in her room and Joe studied his next day’s lines in ours. When Ruby was little, I never watched TV in the evening because I was trying to write a children’s book. Ann...ie Acorn, it was called. It was about a little acorn that wanted to be a flower but grew up to be a tree. It rhymed. There were pictures. I never really finished it. Also never finished the screenplay about the three college friends that I started and abandoned a few years back. Or the article about the politics of breast-feeding that Beth had encouraged me to write. Most recently, I had never finished an application I had requested and received from an adult literacy program. I had decided I would volunteer to teach people to read now that I had such a large part of the day with no kids around.MoreLess
It was a distraction.
On weekday evenings, after I put Sammy to bed, it had become my habit to watch TV in the kitchen while Ruby did her homework in her room and Joe studied his next day’s lines in ours. When Ruby was little, I never watched TV in the evening because I was trying to write a children’s book. Ann...ie Acorn, it was called. It was about a little acorn that wanted to be a flower but grew up to be a tree. It rhymed. There were pictures. I never really finished it. Also never finished the screenplay about the three college friends that I started and abandoned a few years back. Or the article about the politics of breast-feeding that Beth had encouraged me to write. Most recently, I had never finished an application I had requested and received from an adult literacy program. I had decided I would volunteer to teach people to read now that I had such a large part of the day with no kids around.MoreLess
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