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True Stories Series: Meet Andrea Scher
I'm starting a new section of my blog called The True Stories Series where I'll be interviewing artists + writers + hard working creative types - people I admire and respect and who I'd like you to know about. Today I'd like to introduce you to Andrea Scher of...
The Creamy Kung Foo of Writing True Stories
Writing about your real life is a tricky dance. Your life is your petri dish. You examine the things that happen, you make notes, you pay attention to small details and you consider whether you can unpack them to reveal something larger, something like a story....
Why We Tell Stories
Because when our children grow up we can no longer strap them into car seats, which means they’re free to roam the earth as they please, and which sometimes means they down 5 shots of vodka with their new college roommates even though they promised themselves that...
A Little Light, a Tree & a Breeze
Day after day, day after still day,The summer has begun to pass away... -from Summer's Elegy, by Howard Nemerov I can't be sure, but I think we've come to the part of the summer where we're tilting a little too heavily toward the fall. You can almost see September if...
Keep Coming Back
And so, after a couple of fairly unproductive days of writing - or - not writing - as the case was – days where I’d meant well, had made a little nest on the couch, surrounding myself with not only a pile of bills, but a list of writing assignments and essays I’d...
Suzy Was Here
“Come on Gal! Hit the ball! God dammit!” This is the sound of my 77-year-old Mother shouting at herself during her tennis lesson this morning. “No! No! No!” she screams as she slams the racquet into the ball. “Move it!” she shouts,...
Does This Blog Post Make Me Look Fat?
"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark." - Agnes De Mille If...
Poetry Saves the Day * Meet Alison Luterman
25 years ago I was introduced to a world of poets who would change everything I thought I knew about poetry - which wasn't much. I didn't have a traditional education - grew up in hippy alternative schools in Los Angeles - didn't read the classics, not even in...
The Challenge of Writing True Stories
When my friend + long time student, Lisa Sadikman asked me if I wanted to participate in a blog hop where writers get a chance to write about their writing process I said sure, then immediately regretted it because I had just promised myself that I wouldn’t say yes to...
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