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Nov 5, 2017
To 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, 2015
Character Counts Most of All
Thus 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, 2014
What 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, 2014
Empaths 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, 2011
When death is no longer an abstract
My 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, 2011
Hand Me the Knife
I 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, 2011
When a Take-Over is Emminent
Now, 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...
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