A certain piece of anti-library commentary (now removed) on the Forbes website got a lot of deservedly negative attention the last few days. At least it provided a nice lede for this most delightful story about a stuffed-animal sleepover at the Somerville Public Library. This is such a fun idea–and a reminder, if anybody… Continue reading »
Archives for Reading and Writing
On the Open Road
I’m back! Well, I never went away, really. I’ve racked up a number of bylines since 2015, and powered (staggered?) through a book proposal that’s now making the rounds. (Godspeed, little proposal! Somewhere out there is the perfect editor for you.) I also spent the last two-and-a-half years on a tour of duty in the… Continue reading »
Room to Write
For a too-brief but blissful spell last month, I had a room of my own for writing, thanks to a writing residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, VA. If you’re a VCCA Fellow, you get a studio to work in. Mine had a desk, bookshelf, bulletin board, and day bed. Here’s… Continue reading »
Writers, retreat!
Childcare. Eldercare. Elder-dog care. Day job. Housework. I am rich in to-do lists. Writing gets done but too often it gets done in the margins* of the rest of my life. I would like to toss a few clothes in a bag and escape with my thoughts, my laptop, and my notebook to some blissful… Continue reading »
Spirits of the Season
…The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power for ever. Whether these creatures faded into mist, or mist enshrouded them, he could not tell. But they, and their spirit-voices faded together; and the night became as it had been when he… Continue reading »
