TBT ~ My Father’s Writing
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. – Jean Cocteau My dad was a writer. Journalism, mostly, but books, too. Career books, how-to-get-a-job books. (It’s in the blood, I guess, this writing thing. My mom, too, was a writer. My grandfather. Three of my brothers.) And here is what I remember: […]
6.13.2014 Journal Prompt
June 13, 2014: And then there were these days…
RIP Seamus Heaney ~ A View From the Keyboard
“I’ve always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.” – Seamus Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013)
The Promise of Future Accomplishments ~ Gustave Flaubert’s View From the Keyboard
“The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.” ~ Gustave Flaubert (b. 12/12/1821 – d. 5/8/1880)
View From the Keyboard ~ Remembering Carlos Fuentes
Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other. -Carlos Fuentes (November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012)
On Politeness (and its Absence) In A Writing Life
Years ago, when I was a recent graduate from the MFA program in Fiction Writing at Columbia College Chicago, I sent my newly minted thesis out to a small (but not tiny) press. I’d met the managing editor at a conference, and shared a nice conversation with him about books, writers, and the nightlife of […]
Daily Journal Prompt #12
January 19, 2012: If we’d gone a different way…
Daily Journal Prompt #7
January 14, 2012: It wasn’t always like this. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ →image – http://www.redbubble.com/people/juileep/works/2240-urban-landscape-15-abandoned-chair-newtown←