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Telling the Truth About Oneself
Dear Friends and Readers, As I prepare to give a talk about the genre of memoir in a few weeks, I'm again reflecting on this compelling and challenging…
Oct 13
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September 2023
Where We Work: Writers
Dear Friends and Readers, Unlike artists who typically render images of their studios with paint, we writers usually use words to describe where we…
Sep 21
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August 2023
Where We Work: Artists' Studios
Dear Friends and Readers, Artists have long worked in their own studios, and many have portrayed them in paint in ways that give us a glimpse at their…
Aug 14
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July 2023
The Importance of Walking to Writers
Dear Friends and Readers, Now that the garden is a little less demanding, I'm taking long walks again on dirt roads and hikes on trails in town. There…
Jul 15
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May 2023
Why Do Writer's Write
Dear Friends and Readers, On the second anniversary of the publication of Word for Word: A Writer's Life, I'd like to reflect on why writers write…
May 24
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April 2023
NEW JOTTINGS: Into The Garden Again
Dear Friends and Readers, Every April I remember again what gardening brings to writing, and what writing gets from gardening. In the chapter "Words" in…
Apr 17
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March 2023
The Best Way To Read
Dear Friends and Readers, We have so many choices about how to absorb words--on paper, by sound, or as digits--that it's sometimes difficult to decide…
Mar 29
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February 2023
The Pleasures of Handwriting
Dear Friends and Readers, Handwriting is the writer's craft, and I like using it much more than digital fonts that mimic script. Good reasons exist for…
Feb 26
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November 2022
Writers and Their Talismans
Dear Friends and Readers, After viewing Joan Didion's desk items to be auctioned soon at Stair & Co. in Hudson, New York, I began thinking about writers…
Nov 1, 2022
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September 2022
On Writing When Older
Dear Friends and Readers, September is my birth month, and this year I had a big birthday. It was sobering but, happily, I was blessed with three…
Sep 21, 2022
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August 2022
A Love Letter: Writer and Libraries
Dear Friends and Readers, This month the Sharon Summer Book Signing, a fundraiser for the Hotchkiss Library of Sharon, was back after a two-year hiatus…
Aug 22, 2022
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July 2022
The Seismic Quake in Book Publishing
Dear Friends and Readers, This month, on Thursday, July 21st, I'll be talking about Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe to a book…
Jul 16, 2022
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