January 1, 2012
WHO WILL CROSS your path first on New Year’s Day? If it is a redhead, you may need to fasten your seat belt for...
December 31, 2011
ESCHEW WRITING PROMPTS. Be hospitable. Ask Amy. Use the algorithm. Those are four of my five countdown-to-the-new-year memoir writing resolutions. And number five? Here’s...
December 30, 2011
THIS TIME OF YEAR is all about taking stock. And as I look back on the bounty of this year, among its many highlights...
December 30, 2011
ESCHEW WRITING PROMPTS. Be hospitable. Ask Amy. Those are the three previous new year resolutions I’ve asked you to make when learning to write...
December 29, 2011
ONE OF MY early jobs at The New York Times was to write the weather “ear” for the front page, as well as the...
December 28, 2011
NEWS YOU CAN USE. Maybe you saw these stories. Maybe you missed them, but it seems to me that these are among the pieces...
December 28, 2011
BE HOSPITABLE. I have only one maxim in my office—a little index card that reads, “Be hospitable”— and it has been there through four...
December 27, 2011
MEMOIR WRITING RESOLUTIONS need to be made and kept. Let’s make some, so that you meet your memoir writing goals. I think of these...
December 26, 2011
A LITTLE BIT of memoir goes a long way, particularly if you are considering writing an opinion piece. In this case, along with a...
December 23, 2011
NEWS YOU CAN USE. That’s what was pointed out to me this week in one of my classes – the idea that few memoir...
December 22, 2011
EVERY TIME THE holidays come around I am reminded that one of these days I simply have to do something with my mother’s ashes....
December 20, 2011
ARE WE LIARS, all of those of us who create things? Maybe, maybe not. But what do you do when you find a study,...
