Work Your Writing

By Clorisa Phillips

Writing essays and a memoir-in-progress is work for me. In a good way.

When I retired from my four-decade career in higher education, colleagues encouraged me to write a book. “Do it!” “It would be so informative!” All I could think was ugh. Strategic planning, community relations, fund-raising? Performance tracking? That would just continue the impersonal work I’d always done. Eager instead to go on what Isabel Allende describes as “a journey into memory and the sou...