The Immensity of an Afternoon: Reading Berlin Stories
By Mariah Eppes “Strange, the way we look into each other’s eyes on a Sunday afternoon like this, as if we had something to say… Read More »The Immensity of an Afternoon: Reading Berlin Stories
By Mariah Eppes “Strange, the way we look into each other’s eyes on a Sunday afternoon like this, as if we had something to say… Read More »The Immensity of an Afternoon: Reading Berlin Stories
By Claire Taylor I start my mornings with a cup of coffee and the sound of Stockard Channing’s voice. To fit my writing time into… Read More »Rereading Ramona as an Audiobook: How Different Mediums Affect How We Visualize Characters
By Miun Gleeson After some time off, I returned to therapy this month. And like all good writers-in-therapy eager to document the salient takeaways—short of… Read More »Reading for Fun and Other Antidotes to Grief: Picking Up People We Meet on Vacation
By Betty J. Cotter At fourteen I discovered Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead in our small village library. The collection of… Read More »College Girl: The Diaries That Planted the Seed in Wanting to Be a Writer
By Dian Parker In silence, the world comes in close. Drops of rain sliding off the eaves seem to be inside the bedroom, on my… Read More »Silent Quarantine: Processing the Pandemic Through Literature
By Teresa Pham-Carsillo For as long as I could remember, I had a fantasy of being in a position of concentrated solitude, able at last… Read More »The Price Is Loneliness: Reimagining the Fantasy of Writing in Solitude
By Mel Lake My first novel is sitting in a folder in cloud storage, waiting for me to summon the courage to open and revise… Read More »Reading The Sandman and Learning to Fly
By Rebecca Ruth Gould I have nothing against sleep. As Blanchot said, sleep transforms night into possibility. But in order to appreciate the possibilities created… Read More »One Who Keeps the Night Alive: Poetry for Insomniacs by Marina Tsvetaeva and Hafez
By Katherine Wiles I had won a round of Book Bingo at my local library and was wandering around the young adult table, looking for… Read More »The Magic of Writing Magic
By Debra Moffatt For pleasure and purpose, I often have multiple books on the go, alternating back and forth between my current novel choice and… Read More »Bridges: Connecting Anxious People by Fredrik Backman and Almost Everything by Anne Lamott