Nov 5, 2017To the barricades! (And don’t forget your paint brushes.)Each year at the end of April, my parents would also throw a Walpurgisnacht party, which was a low rent version of a black-and-white ball.
Jan 4, 2015Character Counts Most of AllThus I sealed my fate and kissed reading a full-length book good-bye. And then I picked up “Death Comes to Pemberley” by PD James.
Mar 7, 2014What kind of writer’s workshop would you attend?I have been named the 2016 Piedmont Laureate and one of the responsibilities of that position is to conduct workshops for other writers...
Feb 20, 2014Empaths and voyeurs and parrots… oh, my!. Voyeurs, on the other hand, can be both wickedly entertaining and devastatingly cruel. Their ability to see every move you make and...
Dec 14, 2011When death is no longer an abstractMy Dad, top row at right, at Harvard on a Neiman Fellowship in 1955, before the responsibility of caring for six children derailed his...
Dec 4, 2011Hand Me the KnifeI came across this quote from Mark Twain this week and loved it. Being a writer has one big advantage over other occupations: it is one...
Dec 3, 2011When a Take-Over is EmminentNow, I am not so sure. As I continue to write about good vs. evil, and the different forms these forces can take, I wonder about these...