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August 17, 2014
Writers Getting It Right
There’s this fabulous scene in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall –where this know-it-all pontificates about Marshall McLuhan–that sets the stage for what I’m about and where I’m at today. Take a sec to watch this–or if you know the shtick already, … Continue reading →
August 3, 2014
Unplugged: The Prequel
Okay, before you go any further, a disclaimer: this is all about first-world problems. You might be better off reading a book or–better yet–get outside, breathe some fresh air, go kayaking or hiking or something. I’m serious. But, just in … Continue reading →
July 27, 2014
Banning Without Bennies
First off, I’m throwing out a blanket apology to all those folks who wrote in these past couple of weeks only for me to remain silent. The webpage was wonky . . . what can I say? To be truthful, … Continue reading →
June 22, 2014
The Tyranny of Choice
Let me tell you a story about the tyranny of choice. If you’d dropped by my Facebook page a couple months ago, you might have read about my first-world problem: i.e., having watched my husband flip aimlessly through cable channel … Continue reading →
June 8, 2014
Writing Life
(Apologies ahead of time for the paragraph formatting near the end of this; my blog got wonky.) Onward! I had a great exchange this week with a New Zealand fan on the role of life experience (like how young is too young … Continue reading →
May 25, 2014
Requiem for a Planet
Yesterday, it occurred to me to wonder what had happened to the wolves this past winter on Isle Royale, a place I truly love because it is still so wild. I guess I’d been hoping that Superior’s freezing over would … Continue reading →
May 18, 2014
My First-Ever RT Booklovers Convention
My first-ever RT Booklover’s Convention (thank you, Linnea Sinclair and Lydia Kang for inviting me to your panels), and I’m a bit overwhelmed and muzzied. The muzziness is easy to explain. I came down with the plague about two days … Continue reading →
May 4, 2014
Writers Write What They Know . . . Sometimes.
Every time I think I’m going to get back to talking about narratives and developmental levels, a fan asks a great question, and I think, Huh. Must blog about that. So here’s the great question I was asked just a … Continue reading →
How to Treat a Heart Attack
Every time I think I’m going to get back to talking about narratives and developmental levels, a fan asks a great question, and I think, Huh. Must blog about that. So here’s the great question I was asked just a … Continue reading →
April 27, 2014
DNF
Yeah, yeah, I know: I promised to talk about what makes adolescent narratives tick, but something came up in the interim that I figured . . . sure, blog about it. In a nutshell: so I’m doing this interview in … Continue reading →
