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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: Writers and Writing
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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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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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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Villains
Thinking about our Great Wide World WHEN TO FIGHT AND HOW He buried the lead. In last Sunday’s NY Times Opinion section, Drew Westen wrote an article called “What Happened to Obama?” (Maureen Dowd quoted it a few days later.) … Continue reading
Posted in I:DEAS, LIFE, PAGE, Writers and Writing
Tagged aesthetics, culture, hero, story, writing
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Postmodern
Thinking about Design A PICTURE OF A PICTURE OF A PICTURE When I say I live in a “postmodern” world (which I seldom do, but taking this snapshot made me think about it), what I mean is that I live … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Expression, I:DEAS, LIFE, The Little Things, Uncategorized, Writers and Writing
Tagged aesthetics, culture, San Francisco, story
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Braugher and Gant
Thinking about the Performing Arts GREAT ACTING MOMENTS Here’s a new angle on what, daily, can seem like our rapidly tanking ship of culture, flooded by oceans of tasteless junk: we’re also surrounded by excellence. We are. It’s what keeps … Continue reading
Posted in Acting and Actors, PAGE, STAGE (and Screen), Writers and Writing
Tagged Acting, African-American, directing, film, Raves, script, TV
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“Don’t It Always Seem to Go that you Don’t Know What You’ve Got…”
Thinking ’bout the South ON BEAUTY UNRECOGNIZED That’s my mom on the right with her sister Mary. Could you just die? Are we not so clearly in Florida, what with the vegetation and the pom-pom of blossoms in mom’s great … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Home, LIFE, PAGE, Small Towns, The Little Things, The South, Uncategorized, Writers and Writing
Tagged Appalachia, Beauty, Blue Ridge Mountains, family, fiction, Florida, literary, NorSouth, novel, Self-esteem, small town, Southern, women, writing
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