What I’ll Miss: Novelist Meg Rosoff in Homage to Nora Ephron

The moon. Photo credit: penguin bush

When screenwriter and all-round New York top citizen Nora Ephron died last month, everyone reprinted the “What I’ll Miss” and “What I Won’t Misss” lists from her 2010 book I Remember Nothing.

Here are some of my thoughts on the subject.

What I won’t miss:

1. E-mails
2. To-Do lists
3. Cooking dinner
4. “I’ve attached my 250,000 word manuscript for you to read…”
5. Uncomfortable shoes
6. Folding fitted sheets
7. The alarm clock
8. The news
9. Parking tickets
10. “Your call is important to us…”
11. The Archers
12. Reality
13. Mosquitos

What I’ll miss:

1. About 22 people in total
2. Working in bed
3. A nice walk to canter transition
4. Going to the movies
5. Dogs
6. Blogging
7. What might happen tomorrow
8. Rain
9. Swimming in the North Sea
10. The upper deck of the 19 bus
11. The BBC
12. Reading in bed
13. Laughing at (sorry with) Andy Stanton
14. Hampstead Heath
15. Toast with gooseberry jam
16. The moon

Sometimes you just gotta make a list.

Let us know what you will and won’t miss!

This post first appeared on Meg Rosoff’s blog