Audrey Kalman's Blog, page 6
August 18, 2017
Astronomical diversions will eclipse you
If you were expecting information about Monday’s solar eclipse, you will be partially disappointed. I won’t be in the path of totality so I can’t give you 100 percent. You’ll have to settle for 76. Unfortunately for science geeks and eclipse-chasers, the trivial has eclipsed the awe-inspiring. I refer to recent and continuing political events.…Read more Astronomical diversions will eclipse you
July 19, 2017
Leave your garret and come to my party
Being a writer can be hard sometimes. All alone in your garret, scribbling away. Not to mention the often depressing news about how hard it is to make a living in this business. That’s why I’m having a party. I can’t take credit for this idea. Over the years, I’ve so enjoyed the drop-and-hop events…Read more Leave your garret and come to my party
July 3, 2017
Grammar can save the world
“Some English that might strive thine ear to please” — John Keats, Sonnet to Spenser I recently spent a week being paid to care very much that tenses agreed and singular nouns did not precede plural verbs. That is, I was copy editing. And here I arrive at the limit of my ability to describe…Read more Grammar can save the world
June 6, 2017
A weekend among the book people
I spent this past weekend on my feet talking about What Remains Unsaid to anyone who walked by. That’s not as weird as it sounds, since I was at the Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley, California along with a handful of other authors published by Sand Hill Review Press. We’re an award-winning bunch: ten…Read more A weekend among the book people
May 19, 2017
Where do stories come from?
When I was searching for an upstate New York setting for my new novel, What Remains Unsaid, I couldn’t find the perfect town. So I made one up. I grew up in a small—very small—town. One traffic light, one grocery story, a post office, and a population of 1,500 or so spread over fifty square…Read more Where do stories come from?
May 12, 2017
5 things you never wanted to know about me
The five things I’ll make this quick, because I’m kinda fried. I snore, which I would be doing in the photo above if it weren’t an awkwardly posed selfie. I dislike emptying the dishwasher but try to turn it into an exercise in mindfulness, which works only sometimes. I get cranky when I’m tired. I…Read more 5 things you never wanted to know about me
May 1, 2017
Join me to march for art
On April 22, I marched for science in San Francisco along with an estimated 15,000 in that city. More than 600 marches were planned worldwide, though I couldn’t find after-the-fact estimates of total participation. If I hadn’t become a writer, I’d probably have become a environmental scientist. Also, I’m the descendant of scientists and the…Read more Join me to march for art
April 20, 2017
Do you doubt? I do
I never considered myself to be someone who has a problem being vulnerable. After all, I put myself out there every day—as an editor, a speaker, a teacher, a birth doula, a parent. But my self-conception may be, like most people’s, somewhat inaccurate. This becomes evident as I count down to the release of my…Read more Do you doubt? I do
March 22, 2017
Talk to your inner chicken
Four writers sat around a table, commiserating. “I write a lot about what I’m going to write. I have pages and pages of notes.” “I have so many ideas… but I just can’t get started.” “The story I end up writing is never as good as the one I imagined.” “I get so antsy when…Read more Talk to your inner chicken
March 6, 2017
Let you be the judge of you
“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” —Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Once a year, award-winning and nationally recognized health and sexuality writer August McLaughlin invites bloggers to participate in her Beauty…Read more Let you be the judge of you
