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From Blue Peninsula
“My son’s illness is eight years old and has no name. It started when he was fourteen. He is now twenty-two. It is taking away his ability to walk and to reason. It is getting worse, some years more rapidly than others.” read more
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Blog writing
Crocuses, UConn, and Derek Jeter
April 12, 2014
Typically around this time of year crocuses incite a gasp of delight, and they did again this year — just a few days ago in the backyard of the rented house to which I moved a few months ago and the next day, more robust ones, read more
Tags: amazement, baseball, basketball, Breanna Stewart, Derek Jeter, essays, Floyd Skloot, form, heroes, hybrid form, lyric essays, New School, nonfiction, Peter Cooley, poetry, sports, standards, UConn women's basketball, writing
Stillness, Nothing-Happening Moments
April 10, 2014
In March at a beach in North Carolina, a group of people I have known for a long time gathered read more
Tags: Akhil Sharma, Burning Down the House, Charles Baxter, experience, Family Life, fiction, Kawabata, memory, Palm-of-the-Hand Stories, senses, stillness, writing
As if your life depended on it
October 15, 2012
I am afraid Iran will launch nuclear weapons and Israel will in response — this from a doctor on the UWS, read more
Tags: Adrienne Rich, Argo, Ben Affleck, Charles Baxter, Clifford Garstang, death, Dodge Poetry Festival, entertainment, Felice Aull, John Brehm, John Lane, movies, Natasha Tretheway, politics, Rilke, Ron Rash, Thomas Lux, Thomas Lynch, writing
David Rakoff
August 10, 2012
We were just beginning our 10 a.m. workshop here in Lake Lure, NC, opening our web browsers to download the morning’s submissions, when the email came from the friend who had been keeping me posted on David Rakoff’s battle with cancer. read more
Tags: David Rakoff, friends, inspiration, intelligence, kindness, mentors, remembering, wit, writers, writing
Writing at Lake Lure
July 31, 2012
The second week of August, a group of wonderful writers is gathering in Lake Lure, NC, read more
Tags: Lake Lure, Mountains, North Carolina, workshop, writing