I have consulted this handy-dandy Multifaith Calendar Reflecting Eco-Egalitarian Spirituality, and have happily discovered that this evening is the Old European feast of the Triple Goddess (Goddess of the Moon and the Seasons), marking the transformation of the Virgin into the Mother. Plus tomorrow’s Shakyamuni Buddha Day–the day Tibetan Buddhists meditate on the Buddha’s teachings and strive to fulfill the Precepts. Either way, I’m covered.

About it she says: “You may have seen two of the pieces, “Learning to Drive” and “Webstalker,” in the New Yorker a few years ago, about my rather spectacular breakup and its aftermath. They were a bit notorious! The book has eleven essays — I write about love and sex, looks, weight, and getting older (”I Let Myself Go”), being mother of small baby back in the l980s (”Beautiful Screamer”), my Marxist study group , my father the Communist, my mother’s illegal abortion, proofreading pornography as a young woman in the l970s, also thoughts on getting older (men die first!), remarriage (last year), feminism, ecology and lots more. The book is very personal, as well as political.”