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The tale is an old one: a thirsty raven drops stones into a pitcher to raise the water level so she can drink. The story was told by Pliny the Elder, a naturalist in the Roman Empire of the first … Read More…
The flight attendant had just demo’ed seat belts and was reaching for the sample life jacket when I pulled the May issue of Spirit magazine from the seat-back pocket in front of me. Soon after takeoff I came upon a … Read More…
In the deadwater that is book publishing this month–big publishers have no credit to play with and are offering almost no contracts–an amazing thing happened: the author of a second novel received from Scribner an advance of $4.8 million. Yowze!
So over the past two days, as I wrote blog posts that comparatively few people (yet) will read, I discovered that after writing them, I felt happy. Now there’s the happiness of “just having written,” which DailyKos attributed to Robert … Read More…
Okay, it may not be spring yet, but here in Boulder we’ve been having a two-week warm streak. Yesterday, in 70 degrees, I hung laundry on the line strung across our second-floor deck while house finches trilled in the pines … Read More…
On a writers’ and editors’ mail list I belong to a question arose this week about a dilemma memoir writers often face: What do you do when you’ve written something you don’t want a family member to read, especially because … Read More…