Reading Time: 2 minutes Here we are, halfway through the year, and I need to account for myself. I’ve posted only intermittently over the past 20 weeks. Partly that was because of the state of the world. I worked on projects, both personal and professional, that interfered with a three-days-a-week deadline. I was also dealing with a lack of […]
Read More Week in review: Week 26Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING -My project this year, “He Said, She Said,” is a story of a 40-year friendship between two journalists — he’s a conservative, she’s a liberal. It plays out against four decades of changes in society, politics, technology, the sexual revolution, and the news industry itself.
Read More NaNoWriMo Update: Halfway thereReading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING – As we pick our words and our apples, we should remember that they can become so much more when they inspire others to be creative.
Read More How d’ya you like them apples?Reading Time: < 1 minute – REVIEW – The Tom Hanks movie “Captain Phillips” does a good job of telling the story, but the book carries the audience through his personal back story, family life, and an hour-by-hour account of the adventure with the Somali pirates.
Read More ‘A Captain’s Duty’Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING – One day it’s Robert Frost, the next day it’s an old hit by The Osmonds. It’s amazing what goes through your head when you’re up on a ladder picking apples.
Read More Don’t spoil the whole bunchReading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING – Robert Frost tells of a weary farmer at the end of harvest. That farmer and this writer have a lot in common.
Read More On picking your ownReading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING – This time I’ll be tackling “He Said, She Said,” a novel about the career of a couple of journalists who start with a local newspaper just after the Watergate era.
Read More National Novel Writing Month returnsReading Time: 3 minutes – REVIEW – Benfey examines Kipling’s letters and papers, and those of his contemporaries, and tells the story of the decade in which the author tried to fit in as a nouveau American — and then abruptly abandoned the plan.
Read More ‘IF: The Untold Story of Kipling’s American Years’Reading Time: 3 minutes – HUMOR – I’ve been losing hair for years, if not decades. But to have a whole fistful of it disappear onto the floor at once? That’s drastic.
Read More Hair today, gone tomorrowReading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING – For me, it was a perfect end of a summer that had seen no time on the water and little pushing a pencil.
Read More Catching the breeze