Ten Days in a Writerly Life

These past few days feel almost as though I have been trying to squeeze my whole writing career into them. The ups and downs, the good stuff, the bad stuff. The writing itself. I am writing. And that’s a good thing. No small feat when the teaching gets busy, and when the meetings run thick. […]

In Brief Memory of Saul Bellow ~ View From the Keyboard

Saul Bellow was born 96 years ago today and in celebration of the anniversary of his birth, a few bits of wisdom from the writer (and reader) himself: “I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye […]