As this memorable year comes to an end, I’ve chosen my sixteen most popular posts of the year, based on visits, comments, Tweets and Facebook likes.
Blog Posts on Writing and Authors
This Writer’s Life
The writer’s challenge is always to create the life rather than the theory or the explanation of the life…
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?
It took a revolution in critical standards for the way women work to be given equal status with the way traditionally men have worked.
You Come Too
I’m asking you, my able and loyal readers, to “come too” as I head into yet another revision of my biography on Doris Duke. Originally set to be published in 2016, it is now delayed until October, 2018.
A Walker in the City
My visual recordings of New York City are written in words, not images, as part of my new venture which is called, “You Travel, You Write.”
An Independent Will
Charlotte Brontë described the alienation that colored my childhood, and the childhood of so many girls, then and now.
Growing Pains
Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s shells are long gone but the lessons she draws from them are as fresh as the sunrise this morning.
Endangered
I’m wondering if, as I have suspected, we women writers are endangered…in a novel way.
My Writing Group: The Little Engine That Could
For any of you who think, or have thought, about starting a writing group, here is a model that works.
Sugar Nymphs
The bistro is always full with what I’ve come to call Refugee Tourists: men and women of a certain age who look to be fleeing from highways, motels, retirement homes, fast food, and who knows, maybe even from Donald Trump.