THE SIX NEEDS OF EVERY CHILDINTERVIEW My friends, Amy and Jeffrey Olrick have just come out with a new book called, The 6 Needs of Every Child. I wish I could have read it while I was raising children. Here is an interview with the Olricks: This is a hard time for families. You’ve […]
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GENIUS Photo Courtesy of Lance Grandahl 0:00 / 0:00 Genius My seventh grade French teacher, Mr. Cook (name changed), was a bona fide genius. Or, so he told us every day, for ten months straight. We happened to be his first teaching job right out of a top-notch university. He said some strange twist of
COW PANTS AND THE MOON LANDING Photo Courtesy of Wolfgang Hasselm 0:00 / 0:00 Cow Pants & The Moon Landing When I was a teenager, I lived in a pair of shorts that looked like the brown and white mottled hide of a Holstein cow. I loved those shorts with an inexplicable fervor. Why was
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Dressing As If You’ve Given Up On Life Photo Courtesy of Qinghom Shen 0:00 / 0:00 Dressing As If You've Given Up On Life Last year, the locker rooms were under renovation at my gym. Each morning, I headed to a tiny, co-ed space where, for obvious reasons, no one was allowed to actually change.
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IN PURSUIT OF NATURE 0:00 / 0:00 In Pursuit of Nature Years ago, I wanted my friend, Meredith, to take me with her on a camping trip to Lake George. I deliberately didn’t tell her that I knew nothing about camping. I didn’t want her to ditch me for a more experienced companion. Up until
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LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP 0:00 / 0:00 Look Before You Leap As I look back on my life, I’ll have to admit that I’ve been plagued by less than stellar judgment. I’ve identified three categories: pure bad judgment, bad judgment with good intentions, bad judgment with bad intentions. After college, I lived next to a
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DREAMING 0:00 / 0:00 Dreaming I write for a living, which means I sit in front of a computer for hours. For years, I balanced on the edge of a rigid wooden chair. Later, I moved to a tipsy rolling chair. Neither provided back support. Four years ago, I bought a metal chair for a
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WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE?MOVIE REVIEW I thoroughly enjoyed Maria Semple’s quirky book, Where’d You Go, Bernadette and looked forward to viewing the movie adaptation. The day after it opened, I went to the theater with friends. Cate Blanchette is a spectacular actress. She played the part of Bernadette to perfection, with exactly the right amounts of
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GRAVITY Photo Courtesy of Across the Margin A literary journal called Across the Margin just published my short story, Gravity. You can read it down below. However, the journal is so interesting and the graphics are so cool, I suggest you take a look at it online. *** Marilyn’s last sight before dropping dead on the steaming
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THE WRITER’S STORY PODCAST ON MAINTAINING CRITIQUE GROUPS Would you like to hear a discussion about writing communities and critique groups? How to form a group? How to organize meetings? Ways to think about group dynamics? Meredith Cole and Kristin Swenson invited me to participate in the podcast discussing the topic. I join the discussion
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