Surrounded by disasters of every kind, we are seeing the great strengths of our extraordinary adaptability, valued and valuable as it has never been before.
Blog Posts on Writing and Authors
NO
For me as a writer, the NO that seems to set a limit to all my hopes comes in response to an idea, a manuscript—or, in this case, a proposal.
How Wonderful Is That
In the midst of so much bad news, this astonishing performance of starlings, those little birds many of us have learned to hate, is a reminder of our ability to communicate and cooperate
Oh Those Resolutions!
A dear friend of mine reinvented the ritual of New Year’s Resolutions this year, writing a letter on paper trimmed with gold stars to send to his friends…
bell
I only met bell hooks once at a large feminist gathering—but as it happens when a powerful woman is in the room, her presence registered.
The Silver Swan Sails Again
Due to the generosity of a store here in Santa Fe called Travel Bug, I was able to give a reading from the biography a few days ago to a large and appreciative crowd.
A Page a Day
On a recent trip home to Kentucky, I came across a small worn black journal called “A Page A Day.”
Little Brother Comes Home
Jonathan will be back in the place he loved best, and the only place he ever felt he really belonged.
Margaret
We have no heroes and we blindly search for them everywhere. Women heroines need not apply.
Flashing on the Sixties
I am not an unequivocal admirer of that period, those people, and all that they caused—or helped to cause—to happen, in the early 1960’s and continuing to this day.