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Posted in - Balancing parenthood and ..., ... Writing, Mostly about writing, tagged , , , on 19 April 2013 | Leave a Comment »

A friend of mine posted a picture from VCCA and it made me long to be back there.  VCCA stands for the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.  It’s an artists colony in the middle of Virginia at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains and is one of the more magical places I have [...]

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“Advent” on Easter

Posted in Mostly about writing, tagged , , , on 31 March 2013 | 1 Comment »

It seems odd to announce, on Easter Sunday, that an essay of mine, “Advent,” is now up in r.kv.r.y quarterly‘s “Faith and Doubt” issue, but perhaps it’s not so odd after all.  Musings about being lost and found, decline and recovery, living and learning — I suppose it’s always a good time for that. You [...]

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How should an essayist be?

Posted in Mostly about writing, tagged , , , on 3 March 2013 | 4 Comments »

The New Republic recently published an article called “The New Essayists, or the Decline of a Form?“  In it, Adam Kirsch wonders if the work of self-proclaimed essayists like David Sedaris, Sloane Crosley and Davy Rothbart is more like a reality TV show in writing than a collection of actual essays. I read David Sedaris [...]

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“Marked” at Brain, Child

Posted in Mostly about writing, tagged , , , on 22 February 2013 | 8 Comments »

Instead of a post today, you get a link … to my essay, “Marked,” which is up at Brain, Child Magazine! You can read it here. P.S.  That’s not me in the picture!

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Toot toot!

Posted in - Balancing parenthood and ..., ... Writing, Mostly about writing, tagged , , , , , on 1 February 2013 | 8 Comments »

I haven’t been posting as much here as I usually do, but that’s because I’ve been writing writing writing — and my hard work has been paying off! Here’s a little happy horn tooting: I’ve had work accepted at r.kv.r.y quarterly. And I’ve had work accepted at Stealing Time: A Literary Magazine for Parents.  (You [...]

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George Saunders reading

Posted in Mostly about reading, Mostly about writing, tagged , , , , , on 15 January 2013 | 1 Comment »

Wow.  Just … wow. I’ve loved George Saunders ever since I read CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, and when I told him (at his Politics and Prose reading last night), he said that I must have been about four when I read it.  “Between 14 and 24,” I said — not trying to be cagey about [...]

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Plough Monday

Posted in Mostly about writing, tagged , , , , , on 7 January 2013 | 3 Comments »

During yesterday’s visit to the Folger Shakespeare Library (after seeing “Very Like a Whale,” an exhibit that showcased, among other things, a narwhal tooth, an enormous chained book and an etching of a saint saying mass on top of a whale), I learned that if I were living in Tudor England, today would be Plough [...]

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