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
With all that is happening in our country, I am reposting this piece. I am also praying for the father
When growing up, I lived near a castle, one I could easily walk to or ride my bike. And thinking
I have been told that it started when I was three years old. We had two throw rugs in a
Joan Didion is a writer and thinker whose work has stayed with me. The Year of Magical Thinking was a
After 9-11 life was totally altered for all of us. As a writer, I sat and stared at my manuscript,
When I was a child, a daughter growing up, I reflected my mother’s image—her habits, nuances, even her opinions. I
The above is a daunting title, but LISTS always draw me. So I took a look. WHAT I HAD READ Out
If you are a blogger, a writer…then you also must have notes to stimulate your ideas. Or you record ideas on
You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer;
Reading and writing are two sides of the same enjoyment. We read novels to escape, and we write novels and
ENJOY SOME AMAZING POSTS FROM MY WRITER FRIENDS at BBB We are still in the midst of a SUMMERTIME VIBE!
Talking to Strangers Malcom Gladwell has so impressed the reading world with his analysis of life, that the term “Gladwellian
Fighting my fears…something wasn’t right. Midnight, snowstorm on the Dan Ryan Expressway, my van making some unidentifiable sound above
Because it’s August, and the garden is in full bloom, all the various cultivars having reached their desired height, most
You, the author of a blog post, letter, newspaper article, novel…will set your work in a certain time. And, as
I wrote a Memoir of my early years in Chicago, and thus I’ve written about PLACE (the house, the streets,