I haven’t worked on my memoir manuscript since before I graduated from my MFA program in June. It was my final project, and by the time I was done with it, I didn’t want to look at it again. I just wanted to be done with it. Done. To not think about for awhile. I
I’m currently doing a class on The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron’s classic text about a path to creativity. I’m on week eight of twelve. True to Cameron’s practice, I have been doing Morning Pages pretty faithfully. I attend the once a week Zoom with my classmates, other midlife women. I have tried to do the
I finally got around to watching folklore: the long pond studio sessions, a low-key, intimate concert of Taylor Swift’s folklore album. As is always the case, I am perpetually behind. The concert is from three years ago, recorded in pandemic year one. It’s Swift and her collaborators, Aaron Dessner and Jack Antonoff, not only playing
Some of you might have been wondering what I’ve been up to lately. Mostly, it’s being a “learning coach” for a 2nd grader and a 7th grader attending virtual school. And editing, trying to make it through another pandemic year, grumbling about my foot and walking boot, herding cats, and spending an inordinate amount of
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Yesterday, I learned that bell hooks passed away. And I, like so many others, was gutted by her loss. I didn’t know except through her writing. I never got to hear her speak. I only encountered her on the page. When I first picked up one of her books, I didn’t realize the impact that
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I’ve been writing for public audiences since 2007, when I starting writing posts for the Religion in American History Blog. I was a graduate student, who felt a little–or maybe a lot–stifled by the academic styles of writing that focused engaging a specialized audience, other experts. I was writing a dissertation that I hoped spoke
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