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How to Tell the Quieter Stories of Slavery 27 Aug 2013 | 05:14 pm
It is hardest for me to find cruelty in the normalcy of hatred and neglect, in the way a parent simply ignores the big purple A on the spelling test or the partner takes for granted the perfectly edge...
Lessons from a Makeshift Balance Beam 26 Aug 2013 | 04:43 pm
From the sandbox/softball lot to the sideporch that was our family’s front door, Dad had scooped out clay and laid gray gravel, gravel that I tried not to touch on the traverse from space to space. I...
Books on Loss and Grief – My Top Ten 23 Aug 2013 | 05:02 pm
I’ve learned a lot about grief over the past few years – about the way it can bowl you over like a boulder and shimmy up trees of activity only to land on your shoulder in the middle of a silly movie ...
A Shavasana of Solidarity 22 Aug 2013 | 05:34 pm
I feel the ache always in my lower back, the way that our planet’s slinging around a ball of fire pulls me to the earth, tugging out the way I carry myself through all the day – stuck out, held up, bo...
To Focus and To Freedom with Thanks to Franzen 21 Aug 2013 | 05:24 pm
Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It lea...
Laying Stones and Words 20 Aug 2013 | 04:42 pm
10,000 hours. An hour of reading a day. 40 hours a week. Numbers linked to proficiency, outlying, specialization, expertise. I look at what has been laid. The stones P and Dad took from the ones I ....
Putting Aside the Lists 19 Aug 2013 | 05:46 pm
The lists. The lists are threatening to take me over. If I lived with paranoid schizophrenia, I might just be like John Nash and have various versions of them tacked all over the walls of my office. ...
Mystery Writers – A Top Ten from Mom and I 16 Aug 2013 | 05:50 pm
My mom was a mystery lover of the highest caliber. Since she could read a book in a day (and often did), she plowed through mysteries like actual murders needed to be solved. So in honor of what wou...
Resist Gist 14 Aug 2013 | 05:08 pm
My friend, such moments do survive. Give them air. Let them play unsupervised in the field of the body. Keep the tasks of the day aside for as long as you can. Feed silence. Invite time. Resist gist. ...
Writing, Just Inches From My Nose 13 Aug 2013 | 05:05 pm
There’s a story here. Bigger. Broader than I can ever see. A dock slick and tempered beneath my sandaled feet. I hear the moan of the fog horn off a ways. I watch the green-gray of the water slap. ...
