Letting Go of Signs – Our marriage days old, signs portended disaster. My ring didn’t fit. When the jeweler stretched it, it shattered… (read the rest at the New York Times)
Ten Essential Resources for Nonfiction Writers – The adults around the table are fragile – 12 eggs outside their carton. They’re here to write, but they’re afraid they’re not good enough. As the instructor, I start out reassuring. “Compared to the fiction students next door, you’re out from behind the…
When you meet someone new, you shake their hand. It’s a gesture that puts you forward in a positive way. Online, your words are your handshake, introducing others to you, but YOU have to be the one to stick out your hand–and that’s what your website and/or blog is. If you don’t have one, someone else is shaking on your behalf, and you have no control…
Maybe I saw you yesterday. Maybe we haven’t seen each other in decades. Maybe we’ve never actually met and never will due to distance and circumstances. And yet, somehow, we’re friends on Facebook and that’s good enough for me. Really. That’s it. You can stop reading. I’m not here to:…
If we grade a society on how well it holds together during a crisis, it’s clear worldwide opinion has bestowed an A+ upon the Japanese people in the aftermath of last week’s earthquake and tsunami. Much has been made about the fact that there’s no looting or rioting. Outside supermarkets,…