Kelley Korbin's little writing blog
The other day I saw a circa 1960-something Volvo being towed on the back of a flat deck truck. I recognized the car, well at least the model, immediately. One of my friend’s moms drove a similar car in the early 80s when I was in high school. In 1982 that car seemed ancient to […]
Welcome to Coffee Klatch, my new blog that promises a little bit about a lot of things. The term “coffee klatch” comes from the German word, kaffeeklatsch, a compound word that means, “an informal social gathering for coffee and conversation.” The coffee klatch has always held an appeal for me because it combines so many […]
Seven summers ago I bought a six-inch-high fig sapling at the local farmer’s market. I planted it in a perfect spot in our garden — protected from the wind and backed by a warm rock wall. I watered, weeded and pruned. I watched as the tree grew from scrawny infancy into a towering and robust behemoth […]
Apparently confession is good for the soul, so here goes. I cheated on my book club. A bit of history. My book club and I go back more than 15 years. Over that time members have come and gone, but the essentials have stayed the same. We meet 10 times a year, usually the third […]
To me, there’s not much shocking or surprising about the actions of Harvey Weinstein. Nor is it any surprise that his systematic sexual harassment was an open secret in Hollywood. We see this over and over with high-profile men in celebrity culture —there have been lots of American examples, but we’ve had our own Weinsteins […]
When I was little, my dad was the kind of father who knew everything. He answered my questions on any topic. (As this was well before Google and I was usually too lazy to check his accuracy with our set of 1973 World Book Encyclopedias we’ll never really know if he actually did have all the answers. […]