Anyone who has followed my blog (both of you) may have noticed that I’ve not posted anything since–gasp!– July! The good news is that I’ve been focused on other writing endeavors, most importantly The Dissertation– the book that I am writing that will get me the M.F.A. in creative writing for which I came to [...]
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So far during this month I’ve had the opportunity to spend a total of seven days in Taos, New Mexico. First, I attended the University of New Mexico’s Taos Summer Writers’ Conference. This annual conference will always hold a special place in my heart. The first time I attended the conference, in 2005, I [...] How do I write silence, explain the space between words, between thoughts, between moments in time, between the inhale and the exhale? Does silence even really exist? Is there really no sound in silence? What about the low pitched buzz of the refrigerator, the water circulating through the swamp cooler, the delicate thump of [...] Bisquick Easy Deep Dish Pizza It’s weird, how memories come back slowly, at least that’s how it works for me. I’ve been working on this essay / chapter and I wrote that I didn’t recall ever eating pizza with my Mom, that I couldn’t recall what her favorite pizza was, and that it [...] Not too long ago I wrote a section in my memoir–actually it is currently at the end–about volunteering at the Children’s Grief Center. It feels like the end in a way, like this is the place I ended up on my emotional journey of Reconstructing My Mother. But as I re-work my prose, much [...] 
My first crocheted hat It’s amazing what you find out about yourself when you write memoir. Some of it not so good. One of the things I’ve been discovering, or rather running up against, again, is my propensity to not finish things. Especially big things, like crocheting an afghan (as opposed to the [...] I haven’t even finished my current project, and yet, here I go starting something else, SearchingForRosie.wordpress.com. You see, I have a Google Alert set for “Rosie the Riveter” and so I keep getting links in my InBox to cool articles, and now I have a place to share them. And start [...] My friend, colleague, and fellow blogger Elizabeth Tannen (she’s a much more prolific blogger than I am) recently had an essay published on a website called StyleSubstanceSoul.com. She’d run into it when she read anessay there by author Debra Monroe, who, by the way, is teaching at the Taos Summer Writers’ Conference this summer– [...] I should be working on my dissertation, also known as my memoir. I’ve made some progress over the past week: I printed out all 200 pages. This was the easy part. (except for the part where the Lobo Lab on campus was closed, so I had to go to the Library, and use the [...] If you are a regular reader of my blog, or you know me personally, you know that I recently lost my job. It’s a mixed blessing for sure. On the one hand, I now have time to finish my dissertation, to really focus on it, to get the writing done for myself. But, as [...] |
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