Great athletes inspire. This is not something I have always known.
Blog Posts on Writing and Authors
Innards
I am blessed—and have been for six long years—in being given the responsibility of writing Doris Duke’s biography.
Forgiving Myself Forgiving Ourselves
Artists use all the material our lives deliver to us–but the professional cost can be very high.
Mother Tongue
Now that writers are abjured not to write in dialect, we may be losing a connection to an older source than standard English.
Work
I’m annoyed at the concert of writing in newspapers, magazines and books that claim that women don’t really want to work.
Digging In
Certainly my methods of research are sometimes unorthodox… but I am not saddled with the literal-minded over-reliance on facts that a PhD sometimes confers.
Girl vs. Bull
I know Doris Duke would have enjoyed seeing the statue of a little girl confronting the bull of Wall Street.
This I Can Do
Writers have never been paid a living wage… never a princely—or princessly sum—our incomes are now not equal to sustaining even a modest life.
Wild Animals I Have Known
Seton’s animals remind me of how essential that bit of wildness is to us, not only in the precious few wild animals nearby but as an essential bit of our own souls.
Women Writing Women’s Lives
Where, now, are the women writers we could call “outrageous”?