Tapping Out the Grief
For ninety minutes a week, the world I experience is a musical place with classic jazz or Broadway tunes accented by the sounds of fourteen tap shoes slapping and flapping and stomping across a studio floor.
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Peace on Earth
To you and yours I send one simple message: If it is not possible to have peace on earth, may we at least live at ease with each other. Pax.
Continue reading →That Time of Year
There are no traditions for merging the happiest time of the year with the emotional pain of loss, whether sudden or lingering.
Continue reading →The Writer’s Mind
We have written about grim events that required researching information we should not be thinking about the night before a physical. But we can’t help ourselves. We just think too much.
Continue reading →Are You My Mother?
You may have been nurtured by a mother possessing all the perfection of Caroline Ingalls or struggled through childhood with a parent who took lessons from Hamlet’s Queen Gertrude. For most people growing up in Mom’s kitchen fell in a more safe and boring middle ground.
Continue reading →What Writers Look Like (at AWP)
If available sessions don’t meet your needs, people watching will fill the seventy-five minutes.Big names, wannabes, teachers who never published a word, agents, publicists, publishers, editors, illustrators, students all sort themselves into attending five hundred sessions over three days
Continue reading →The Hostage’s Mother
Diane Foley’s son was killed as a horrific political statement by extremists who would do the same to my child or yours. And even though he died a hero, telling the world what was happening in Syria and Iraq, the man so brutally treated was first Diane’s son, her boy.
Continue reading →About 90th Birthdays
Writers don’t have the opportunity to retire. If our minds are working and the words still flow, we don’t dare turn off our computers or throw away our notepads and pencils.
Continue reading →Speechless in Snow
The very thought that almost eight thousand people have taken the time to shoot a little video about shoveling leaves me speechless.
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