I started writing Margaret’s story, based on a brief memoir she dictated to her nephew many years after her taking…
Blog Posts on Writing and Authors
Celebrating a Master
“Master” is what John Cheever (1912-1982) was, and is, although largely forgotten now in spite of the acclaim and the many awards he accumulated during his long career as a successful novelist and short story writer.
Do We Collaborate
The idea of collaborating has always made me a little squeamish.
Two Queens
What could be more different than these two queens?
The Personal Is Political
We may all be susceptible to thinking our “personal” stories are nothing more than personal, forgetting over and over again that, as Gloria Steinem said, “The personal is political.”
Finding Hope
As I come to the completion of this draft of The Eyes of Addicts, I work hard not be overwhelmed with sadness… yet there is always light in the darkness.
Lux
At a fundraiser I was hosting the other day for New Mexico Women Rising, I met the publisher of LUX, a new slick magazine aiming to secure “The Future of Feminist Journalism.”
Truth and Reconciliation
I want to draw my readers’ attention to the extraordinary visit of Pope Francis to Canada to apologize personally for the destruction of thousands of Native children over the course of two centuries.
These Small Blessings
Actually not so small.
Learning From Virginia
This summer is my sixth at Summer Classics, and I’m fortunate to be re-reading Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway with seventeen other people and two tutors, as professors are called here.