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- Yep. That’s me. Apparently I had something to say. Still do from time to time. Not much has changed except they don’t let me bring my squeezy toys with me to meetings. I’m not sure about this blog thing, but I think a lot about writing, about acting, about how to move people. So maybe we can think about some of those things together.
Category Archives: PAGE
I’ll Have What They’re Having
“If you’re going to invent, you’re going to disrupt.” That’s Jeff Bezos talking. Once upon a time, he was Mr. Amazon. Now he’s Mr. Amazon Publishing. For good and ill, he’s inventing a seismic disruption of the book world. Journalists … Continue reading
Posted in Artistry, Design, Expression, Going to Solace, I:DEAS, PAGE, Publishing, Uncategorized, Writers and Writing
Tagged literature
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Joie de Livre: Shared Reading
It’s been a big week. I was honored to moderate a panel celebrating the joys of shared reading called Joie de Livre (great pun) for the Women’s National Book Association and Litquake. I love the speed-chess thinking that has to happen when … Continue reading
D.A.R. 2.0
My mother was one. That means I’m one: a (big quotes here) “Daughter of the American Revolution.” I wouldn’t have known that if my dad hadn’t told me because my mother never spoke of it. Why? The thought “mortified” her, … Continue reading
On Tolerance and Toleration
Thinking ’bout the South THE LANGUAGE OF RESPECT My address says CA, but all I see from my writing desk these days are my old familiars, the mountains of NC. Given a continent’s remove from those parts, I speak of … Continue reading
Posted in Going to Solace, LIFE, PAGE, Small Towns, The Little Things, The South, Uncategorized, Writers and Writing
Tagged Appalachia, Blue Ridge Mountains, caretaker, family, fiction, Hospice, literary, North Carolina, novel, solace, South, Southern, women, writing
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A Star is Born
Thinking about the Performing Arts THE COOLEST HEAD PREVAILED I’m going to stretch out in this blog post and tell you a story. The little girl on the left (the one with the giganimous headset on…) deserves no less. You … Continue reading
Posted in Artistry, LIFE, Music and Singing, Once Upon a Lullaby, Once Upon a Lullaby, PAGE, Small Towns
Tagged baby, bedtime, girl, Lullaby, Merced, music, recording, Singing, talent, voice
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Civility
Thinking ’bout the South THE SEMIOTICS OF REGARD Today’s New York Times ran one of those borderline-quaint regional features about the decline of manners in the South (“A Last Bastion of Civility”). I suppose it’s not easy to find an … Continue reading
Posted in Expression, Family, Going to Solace, Home, LIFE, Small Towns, The Little Things, The South
Tagged Appalachia, Blue Ridge Mountains, caretaker, Civility, family, Going to Solace, Hospice, literary, Manners, novel, South, story, The South, women, writing
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Strange Doors, Moving Loops
Thinking about Writing THE THING-NESS OF THE BOOK “A book is a network.” Great phrase. Evocative. From new-publishing guru Todd Sattersten. I picked it up at a mind-widening webinar he hosted last week via O’Reilly TOC. (I highly recommend him and … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Expression, I:DEAS, Our digital culture, PAGE, Publishing, Writers and Writing
Tagged Appalachia, Blue Ridge Mountains, book, caretaker, family, Going to Solace, Hospice, literary, novel, South, story, women, writing
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This One My Niece Made
Thinking about Writing (and Design) LOOKING AT, LOOKING FOR She sits right on my desk. Peering at me just this way, day after day. My niece. She’s concentrating really hard because she’s taking a picture of herself. Or trying to. … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Expression, Family, I:DEAS, LIFE, PAGE, The Little Things, Writers and Writing
Tagged aesthetics, literary, novel, story, writing
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Shaggy and Nosy and Loud
Thinking about Writing FIELD WORK A balmy Sunday afternoon. Bright sun. Cool air. I drive myself well out of town down a dusty road to a sheep farm. It features a modest farmhouse, not a mansion. Worn wooden fencing surrounded … Continue reading
Posted in Going to Solace, Home, LIFE, PAGE, Small Towns, The Little Things, Writers and Writing
Tagged Appalachia, Blue Ridge Mountains, caretaker, family, fiction, food, Hospice, literary, North Carolina, novel, Petaluma, South, Southern, women, writing
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