This quote hangs on the wall of my writing cottage. Looking for an image of it on-line, I found this one, in which the quote is credited to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Wondering who the heck that might be, I went searching again and I learned that she is the President of Liberia, and the first […]
I was thinking about how my own little domestic dramas are really not very interesting, compared to massive forest fires and fleeing refugees and headlines in Mumbai or, for that matter, Kentucky. This led to a kind of depressive, downward spiral (another one), hearing my wonderful father’s voice in my head saying, “Women talk about […]
I had an upsetting experience yesterday. I went to a financial planner with my dear husband, and, as we sat down, he began explaining how precarious our existence is since I have quit my job to be “a writer.” I don’t think he actually put “air quotes” around the words a writer, but he pronounced them as […]
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