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What Good Friday Teaches Us About Cynicism With all that is happening in our country, I am reposting this piece. I am also praying for the father Read More
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Joan Didion, My Days of Magical Thinking Joan Didion is a writer and thinker whose work has stayed with me. The Year of Magical Thinking was a Read More
WHAT IS LIMINAL SPACE and WHY IT’S OUR NEW NORMAL After 9-11 life was totally altered for all of us. As a writer, I sat and stared at my manuscript, Read More
Have You Read This Classic? A Different Drummer Every so often, a “forgotten classic” is rediscovered and the literary world rallies with praise and predictions. This is Read More