Holiday Lists

December 24, 2008

On the update I just sent out with a holiday greeting plus my workshop and retreat listings for 2009, I also included a few prompts. Here they are: Below are a couple of ways to get you writing over the holidays. Let’s take a minute – yes, a minute will do – to make lists, […]

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Is this it?

November 28, 2008

For years my two older sisters and I have stood at Susan’s kitchen sink in Georgetown–cleaning up after a big family dinner–and said, “This could be it,” meaning this holiday get-together with our aging parents might be our last. For many years, Nancy accompanied our parents from Philadelphia to Washington for Thanksgiving and Christmas, first […]

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Home Again, Home Again

November 15, 2008

Somebody commented on my last post–about my love of the billboards in Qatar–did you survive the trip to the Doha airport? We haven’t heard from you since. Having lived and driven in Boston and New York City, I’m not upset by the Doha drivers, though I haven’t actually driven in the country. And yes, I […]

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Billboards

October 26, 2008

I am leaving in a few minutes. This has been an amazing week–lots of different teaching venues and experiences. I’m still in love with the billboards and the construction, but the driver is arriving any minute so I’ll post more later.

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Qatar: Around the Compound

October 19, 2008

So far on this working trip to Qatar, I’ve had the compound spa to myself for early morning and late night plunges.  The ocean is my preferred venue, but this pool, mosaic-ed in shades of blue, takes me into a watery, ripply dream. So glad I remembered my goggles. The coffee scene isn’t quite as charming.  […]

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Why I Love gchatting

September 10, 2008

I got into an email exchange with a client this morning. We were both hitting “send” every five minute or so. Finally, I emailed him: You should use your gmail account, I wrote. Then we could have quick little chats and check-ins. And you could have them with . . . too. I keep up […]

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Grief In its Own Time

September 3, 2008

I wake up with blog post ideas. Yes, that’s a good one, I tell myself. And I can use the photo from . . . Over the past month I’ve considered lots of entries, but somehow when it’s time to open the blogger dashboard, my fingers freeze and I stop. My last post is a […]

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Daphne: In Memoriam

July 24, 2008

Daphne’s mud facial after digging in the creek for a rock With the help of our vet, the sublime Dr. Adriano Betton, Daphne died peacefully last night in her yard. We buried her–along with a collection of her beloved rocks and Rosie’s ashes–not far from the shed out back. She’s in the company of the […]

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The Poplar Grove

July 21, 2008

When I took a writing group to France in June, we walked from the chateau to a poplar grove. This was as close as I got to the trees. Others wandered through the swampy grass–you wouldn’t know it was there by looking–and tried to get into the grove. At one point the trees had been […]

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My Favorite Writing Tool

July 16, 2008

When I’m stuck and can’t budge on a writing project–when free-writing, list making, journaling from the kitchen sink’s or my dog’s point of view, clustering–when all these tools fail me, I put on my knee high boots and head out to the back shed for this . . . my blue wheel barrel. I dig […]

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