Tonight will see the rising of the first full blue moon… I’m making deviled eggs to take over to my friend Doug’s house.
Margaret in the Wilderness
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.
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…
Getting to YES
Out of the sour ground of NO spring many hopeful sprigs, especially the generous responses to so many of my posts from you.
Margaret in the Wilderness
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.
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.
Margaret
We have no heroes and we blindly search for them everywhere. Women heroines need not apply.
Two Women: Margaret and Doris
I’ve come to believe over the years that there is a core similarity that connects the lives of all women. I think it is our ability to adapt.
Writing History
There are so many hidden stories that we as writers and readers need to write and to read—and to demand that they be written by women.
The Next Step
How to live on nothing is a question the publishers have not condescended to consider.