Marion Dane Bauer's Blog, page 24
March 8, 2016
The Only Thing
“‘The best thing for being sad,’ replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, ‘is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake in the middle of the night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your […]
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March 1, 2016
Little Cat’s Luck
I’ve always loved cats. From the time I was a child, I’ve had cats in my life. One cat, two cats, sometimes three. But a while back, after years and years of cats, I began to notice the way my eyes turned red, the way they swelled, the way they itched. Miserably. Constantly. But especially […]
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February 23, 2016
The Only Day There Is
“Today is a moment of light surrounded on all sides by darkness and oblivion. In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another just like it and there never will be another just like it again. It is the point to which all your yesterdays have […]
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February 16, 2016
The Hazard of Too Much, Too Soon
Every writer, no matter how brilliant, needs editing. First she needs her own intense editing process, and then she needs an informed and objective eye to see beyond her own, too-close-in vision. That statement is so obvious as to hardly be worth saying. There is, however, a more complex question to raise about this editing […]
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February 9, 2016
A Lucky Day!
Hurrah!This is the day!The day for what?The publication day for one of my favorite books. Little Cat’s Luck, a companion book for my earlier verse novel Little Dog, Lost, comes intothe world today. And why is it one of my favorites?Well . . . truth be told my newest book is almost always my favorite, […]
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February 2, 2016
The Balancing Act
Amen, Marion. And [teachers] can also stop making “judgments” like “you will never be a writer” or “your ideas are trite” or “writing is just not your thing, dear.” Yesterday I sat with a group of fellow creatives and it was astounding how many of us have carried those messages from Teacher Gods most of […]
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January 26, 2016
Our Job Here on Earth
“And in turn the Heron asks, with shocking clarity as it flies from right to left and left to right: why can’t our job here on earth be simply to inspire each other?” Graham Joyce
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January 19, 2016
You Probably Won’t Remember Me
Hello! You probably don’t remember me, but I attended your session at the Young Author’s Conference at Bethel about fifteen years ago when I was in fifth grade. I was just going through some old photos and letters and I came across several e-mails you wrote to me following that conference—it appears that my overly-persistent […]
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January 12, 2016
To Dare, to Do
“We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to find the statue by removing the rubbish, nor as a receptacle into which knowledge may be poured; but as a flame […]
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January 5, 2016
LoonSong
The dream has come to fruition. The first LoonSong retreat will gather from September 8th through the 12th, 2016. It will have riches to offer for children’s and young-adult writers at every stage of their careers. And we will meet, not in a rustic island cabin, but in Elbow Lake Lodge, a gorgeous, lake-side resort.
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