Writer's Blog
What Maxine Hong Kingston Calls a “longbook.”
What Maxine Hong Kingston Calls a “longbook.” Having just finished my novel, The Taste of Anise, which took me…
November 28, 2018
Writer's BlogA Toothbrush, a Typewriter and a Revolver
RIP Claire Hollingworth, who died yesterday at 105. Am I searching for empowerment/strong women/examples of heroism/of female guts and power…
January 11, 2017
Writer's BlogArtists Teach Us How to Live and Die
Artists are good at showing us how to think about death and dying. They extend their hands, stretching them far out into the unknown that awaits. We arrived at a…
January 14, 2016
Highlights, Writer's BlogWalt Whitman
I’M THINKING ABOUT WALT WHITMAN! His drama. His emotion. His love of nature, of men and women, and honesty…boy…
December 9, 2015
Highlights, Writer's BlogAmerican Voices
A collection of my memoir vignettes, Growing Up Italian in the New Jersey Pine Barrens ~ now available in paper…
October 9, 2015
Writer's Blog(Sometimes) it’s a good thing when history repeats Itself ~ ~
The Pinelands Jetport: A crazy plan in the 1960’s narrowly averted by citizen action ~ “Bridges to nowhere” crop up again and again…
September 21, 2015
Highlights, Writer's BlogHappy Birthday John Bartram! March 23, 1699 – September 22, 1777
That jolt of recognition! Whether through a nice sentence or a photograph, you are transported by a sudden, ineffable feeling that can…
March 23, 2015
Blueberries, Writer's BlogReluctant goodbye to blueberry season…
I know, blueberry season ended in California at least two months ago, but I’m not ready! Found this…
November 6, 2014
Beautiful Italians, Writer's BlogWe need more humanists!
Leon Battista Alberti (1404-72) was a ‘universal’ Renaissance man and humanist. The humanists believed in studying “history, philosophy, and the classical…
November 6, 2014