On a sunny Sunday afternoon in June, 1980-something, I was helping my mother change the sheets on her bed. I was in my early teens. Local news was covering the NYC Pride Parade and my mother turned to me, made a limp-wrist gesture and said, “Why do they need to flaunt it?” She continued, “I…
Category: A Piece of Our Minds
Grace (Sunday Summary)
“Sunday’s child is fair and wise and good and gay.” Your 2 Rules co-founders however, are both (technically) Tuesday’s children–full of grace, as the poem goes. We looked it up and everything. Grace-filled or not, welcome to the Sunday Summary for the week of 27 March 2022-2 April 2022. We’ve kicked off our National Poetry…
Charlotte Smith (Caturday Questions)
Folks, Little Cat is in a bit of a rut. There’s only so many times you can run away from Human-Mom and scare the living hell out of her. Or sit on her shoulder and lean out over whatever she’s trying to see. Everything gets old. Even the classics show their age eventually. The other…
Poetry for 30 Days (Watch/Listen/Read)
Adam Writes: Happy Gudi Padwa! And Ramadan Mubarak! It’s National Poetry Month and Erika in particular is busy. By rights we should both be talking about our favorite poems. Giving the readers a clue as to how to read them. Etc. But I thought that while I’m still in India I should talk about a…
India is… Too Big for One Article (Bangalore Letter #3)
I am here in India getting to know Anuja and her family and her country. Tall order. People back home in the United States are going through some serious stuff and I’m only able to call them or text them every so often because of the time difference. Ukraine is at war with Russia. Sri…
A Peek at Poetry (The Letter is Delayed)
Plan for the Unexpected, Right? Circumstances have conspired to delay Adam’s latest letter from Bangalore. I’ve seen it already. When we do publish it, I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I did. We still want you to have something to read though. So…how about a little poetry talk? National Poetry Month is only…
Women’s History Month: Healing and Anger
Adam and I have often spoken about how one of our goals is to amplify voices that may not be heard. Which kind of obligates us to address the fact that March is Women’s History Month. I’ve had a note in our 2 Rules calendar about Women’s History Month for a while, but it just…
Optimism (Sunday Summary)
The Sunday Summary for the week of 21 March 2022-26 March 2022 has us celebrating a first for the 2 Rules of Writing team and has us looking forward to more new things. This week’s stories are filled with love, hope and even perhaps optimism for the future. New pages have been added to the…
Potential (Caturday Questions)
Little Cat is 17 years old. Things have gotten to the point where he has considered retiring from his job of periodically running away from home and scaring the crap out of Human-Mom. It’s bittersweet. He’s very good at his job. And he obviously loves it. But like so many consummate professionals, he’ll probably retire…
Tropes and Cliches (Watch/Listen/Read)
Adam Writes: Our appearance on the podcast Master of None came out yesterday, and there’s another one on the way in spring or summer. (Well… I’m in Bangalore now, where it’s currently summer. And Erika is in Florida where it’s pretty much always spring or summer. But you get the idea. Details to follow.) I…