Writer’s Almanac

After the gym, I come home and wonder when I became such a health-obsessed, semi-routine-loving writer. I remember the days when I’d rush home to wolf down two bites of dinner and embark upon my half-a-pack nicotine fix at 5 o’clock.

Most of the time, I was washing things down with a shot of Jack Daniels, neat. These days I casually measure my lack of invincibility.

Well, before I began to get down on myself for being lame and rushing home–not to galavant or drink scotch or lean out my window and watch the night with cigarette in hand–but, instead, to make a Thai-butternut squash soup, I heard something that was reassuring to me. I had my radio turned to my local NPR station and heard Garrison Keeler’s daily installment of the Writer’s Almanac. For those of you not privy to hearing it on the air, there is a little nifty website where you can catch everything Keeler’s got to say in his 10-minute ditty.

Turns out today is Haruki Murakami‘s birthday and Keeler was discussing Murakami’s  rather healthy routine when writing the book, Norwegian Wood. Made me feel a little bit better about my personal search for semblance.

–claudia