Once again these are the books that stood out for me among those I read this past year. They were not necessarily published in 2011; many of them appeared decades ago, in fact. Fiction Native, by William Haywood Henderson. Henderson’s gorgeous, delicate, but also ripping first novel explores some themes similar to those in [...]
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Standout Reads of 2011
Posted in Books, Literary Inspiration, Poetry, Reading, Writing, tagged book choices 2011, great reads, recommended reading on January 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Broken
Posted in Books, Boulder Fire, Literary Inspiration, Outdoor activities, Wildfire, Writing, tagged creativity, numinous, prayer, spirituality, survival, woo-woo on April 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Walking nurtures an open mind… The sky is like an upturned plate—a big platter of openness filled with thoughts.” –Liz Caile, A Life at Treeline In Deep Survival, Laurence Gonzales writes that people who are lost in the wilderness and survive often have in common that they prayed. Those who are found but only [...]
Pushing Through to Find the Story
Posted in Literary Inspiration, Wildfire, Writing, tagged #boulderfire, fourmile canyon fire, moving on, ptsd, writing life on March 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Today I’ll just link to Andi O’Conor’s New York Times interview about the Four Mile Canyon Fire. Apparently she talks to people as beautifully as she writes. I wish she were building her new home right next door to mine. A Colorado Blogger on Losing Her Home to a Fire In the article and in [...]
Resolutions I Know I Can Stick To
Posted in Life Changes, Literary Inspiration, Writing, tagged chocolate, food, fun, new year's resolutions on January 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last year I set goals, and I made a lot of progress. But I realized that I didn’t always have control over how far I could get. I mean, I avoided things like “win the Nobel prize,” but even targets such as “send out a set of poems every week” weren’t always doable. I got [...]
Standout Reads of 2010
Posted in Books, Literary Inspiration, tagged book choices 2010, great reads, recommended reading on December 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Not necessarily written this year, just the ones that popped for me of those I read. Fiction: Every Man Dies Alone, by Hans Fallada (a German couple find a way to resist the Nazis) The Informers, by Juan Gabriel Vasquez (the legacy of Nazi Germany tears apart a modern-day Bogota family) Life and Fate, by [...]
Underground
Posted in Art, Literary Inspiration, Writing, tagged silence, writing life on November 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »
All I’m doing for my blog post this week is linking to this illustration, by Alex Andreev, on Condalmo’s blog. I’d copy it here, but I’m not sure about permissions. One click on the first link will take you there, and if you’re a writer or any other kind of person who needs a little [...]
Dare I Say It? Progress.
Posted in Art, Literary Inspiration, Metrics, Parenting, Writing, tagged publishing, return on engagement, return on investment, return on objective, south dakota review, writing life on July 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
In my day job we talk a lot about metrics and return on investment. I try not to think about things like that in the rest of my life. What does progress mean to a mother or a poet? We’d better find more poetic ways to frame it. You’re a goddess in your kid’s eyes [...]
Lining Up the Silences
Posted in Books, Literary Inspiration, Reading, tagged Elaine Showalter, Mary Gordon, Tillie Olsen, writing on June 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been poking around in Elaine Showalter’s critical review, A Jury of Her Peers, which assesses American women writers from 1650 to now. This review needed to be done, and I don’t mind that Showalter’s take on some writers, like Joyce Carol Oates and E. Annie Proulx, is a lot more positive than mine. Or [...]
Lies and the Ways We Live Them
Posted in Coming Out, Literary Inspiration, Poetry, Professional Choices, tagged Books, Economy, Gender, Marketing, Transgender on May 20, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Recently I read Jennifer Finney Boylan’s She’s Not There, a memoir of a life, as she puts it, in two genders. It was a good book, but I didn’t really come away understanding the transgender experience, any more than I come away understanding race when I read a memoir written by someone who is a [...]
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