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April 14, 2025
A response to John Crowley’s The Solitudes
I just finished reading Crowley’s The Solitudes with great relief. I haven’t hated a book so much in a long time, but I felt obligated to read it for the reading group I belong to. From the first page, I struggled to get interested in the work, rereading the first 30 pages or so two …
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April 9, 2025
Thanks to Joe Casciani for introducing me to his great podcast: Living to 100 Club and for this fun interview. Join us!
Joseph M. Casciani What does it mean to truly embrace aging—not just physically, but emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually? In a recent episode of The Living to 100 Club Podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with author and educator Lily Iona MacKenzie, whose new hybrid memoir, Dreaming Myself into Old Age: One Woman’s Search for …
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March 31, 2025
Why do I write?
Why do I write? Because if I don’t, I feel as if part of myself has checked out. It’s as important to me as food. Okay, it is food, the word like a communion wafer that melts on my tongue, nourishing body and soul. It’s also like having a lover that never loses his attractiveness, …
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March 24, 2025
Suzanne Sherman offers great advice on creating characters in memoir!
For thirty years now one of my favorite teaching topics in memoir classes is showing characters. This week in class, everyone created character studies for the people they’re writing about. I want to share some tips for how to do this yourself. Character studies are a great resource no matter how well you know the …
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March 17, 2025
Why Canada continues to be my home and native land!
I’m not your garden variety Canadian. I don’t own a Hudson’s Bay blanket. I don’t go to hockey games anymore. I’ve stopped being nice. I’m no longer so polite. And I gave up my citizenship when I became an American many years ago. But I can’t seem to shake my country of origins, especially now …
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March 10, 2025
How are comic books and graphic novels siblings?
I wish I could get excited about graphic novels. I looked at Maus many years ago and tried to get into it. I couldn’t. I didn’t like having prefab images put my own imagination on hold. I didn’t like the lack of complexity I enjoy so much in a literary novel (no graphics). It was …
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March 3, 2025
Thanks to Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop for shining her light on “The Good Old Days in Publishing”!
The Good Old Days in Publishing A nostalgic backward look This is the second of a two part series on publishing before the Internet. You can read Part I here. I first went to work in publishing five decades ago. It was a move I made consciously in order to understand the inner workings of …
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February 24, 2025
Suzanne Sherman offers great advice on structuring memoirs!
Story Structures for Memoir American films tend to follow a three-act story structure with a key turning point at the end of the first and second acts. Memoir has no single formula like that for its structure, though it’s not a free-for-all. There are options to choose from. When I started writing a memoir a …
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February 17, 2025
On not being perfect!
During my life, I’ve spent considerable time in therapy, psychoanalysis, and self-reflection, examining dreams, my relationships with people in the external world and with the “little people of the psyche.” I’ve also practiced meditation, participated in worship at churches and synagogues, and had an active interest in the spiritual life. In short, I’ve tried to …
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February 10, 2025
Making lemonade: How to transform rejection!
A writing friend of mine has papered her bathroom with rejection slips. Viewed in that context, they become less weighty and are put into perspective. As writers, we tend to think of rejections from publishers as negative. But rejections also can be gifts in disguise, offering us a way to make lemonade out of lemons. …
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