Here with the first day of spring yesterday in the midst of heavy snowfall—98 inches on the mountain, the most in many years—I am announcing the Revolution.
Blog Posts on Writing and Authors
She
Must the divine feminine be denatured?
The Virgin Goes Into Labor
Oh the ghosts of Christmas past! We all have them. May yours wear holly wreaths and drag chains of tinkling bells if they have to drag chains at all.
Small Potatoes
One of those rare fortuitous meetings that make life so interesting occurred in the fall in a hallway at the New York Society Library, my home away from home in that city.
Margaret Erskine: “Taken by Indians”
I started writing Margaret’s story, based on a brief memoir she dictated to her nephew many years after her taking…
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.