Kate Chopin wrote “The Awakening,” a classic of feminist writing. Garrison Keillor wrote about her today in “A Writer’s Almanac.”
Keillor also published this delightful poem today:
Where’s that thing?
by John Kenney
Where’s that thing?
you ask me
looking in the cabinet above the stove.
The new one or old one, I reply,
fairly sure you know what I mean.
Old one.
Under the sink.
It’s not there.
Just look.
I’m looking.
Look under that stuff.
It’s not here.
The other stuff.
Nope.
Wait. You mean the green one?
No. Blue. I think it’s blue.
Oh. That’s in the drawer.
I checked the drawer.
Did you check behind the plastic thing?
We’ re talking about the same thing, right, the one with the
weird top?
Of course.
Wait. Here it is.
“Where’s that thing?” by John Kenney from Love Poems (for People with Children).G.P. Putnam’s Sons © 2019. Reprinted with permission. (buy now)
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Happy Birthday, Kate! Here, something short and wonderful of hers to read today:
https://archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/webtexts/hour/
And then there is the late and irreverant George Carlin talking about the importance of STUFF. The text of one version is here.
His daughter has saved all of his notes, manuscripts, video tapes and the rest for the National Museum of Comedy. She thought about the Smitsonian but decided the materials would probably be placed in a vault and seldom seen. http://www.allreadable.com/e69382te
LOL!!!! You look out the airplane, and there you see all people’s little piles of stuff.
I miss this guy on Saturdays and at noon on weekdays from NPR.