Category: Blog
July 5, 2010
We the People
of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, promote the general welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and […]
READ MOREJune 29, 2010
Guilty
Yesterday, a jury found former Chicago police commander Jon Burge guilty. Not of the torture which it’s alleged he committed and/or oversaw in his years as a detective and commander […]
READ MOREJune 27, 2010
Call of the Wild
Kathy Lyndes, a friend of mine, and her partner are drawn to the lives of wolves. They just came back from eight days on Isle Royale, assisting in a project […]
READ MOREJune 16, 2010
In Flanders Fields
I bought StreetWise today from Roarke E Moody, the vendor I know best. Moody is a Vietnam vet, and a poet, and for the Memorial Day issue of the paper he […]
READ MOREJune 10, 2010
Aging Gracefully
When I was a child, I was ballet mad, like many little girls. We lived in a small town in eastern Kansas, and now and again famous troups would come […]
READ MOREJune 5, 2010
Eleanor Taylor Bland
Eleanor Taylor Bland, 1944-2010. Eleanor Taylor Bland, 1944-2010, died on June 1, and our world of writers, readers, humans, is diminished. I first met Eleanor in 1992, when she published […]
READ MOREJune 1, 2010
Air and Rice
I took a week away from the computer and it was very restful. I’m trying to work out ways to focus more on my writing, less on anxiety and the […]
READ MOREMay 24, 2010
The Copy-Editor’s Revenge
After writing in here about my editing woes, I thought I’d give Shakespeare’s copy editor, channeled here by Rowan Atkinson, a chance to reply:
READ MOREMay 21, 2010
As Granny used to say…
A friend of mine wrote recently, and said, “‘It’s a great life, if you don’t weaken,’ as my grandmother used to say.” The images that conjured up were somewhat terrifying, […]
READ MOREMay 10, 2010
Towards a theory of writing
Thank you all for your good wishes on my previous post. I’m back from a marathon weekend in Massachusettswith my independent editor. We worked until two every morning going through the […]
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