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The Sentence
I, who love words so much, am surprised to find myself newly enchanted with the sentence as a unit of language. Sentences in all their delicious variety, some with many clauses, dipping in and out, amplifying a theme before it brings itself, sharply, to a halt. Or long sentences that make you think, having to […]
Call Yourself A Writer by Anne Leigh Parrish
I recently took part in a virtual author event with two other women writers. Let me say how much I have come to appreciate the magic of Zoom video conferencing, aside from not having a paid account which meant getting dumped off the call after forty minutes. No problem, everyone, including the audience, was able […]
The Girl in the Red Boots: Making Peace with My Mother
by Judith Ruskay Rabinor, PhD This book was born in 1983, when my 68-year-old divorced mother-in-law announced her remarriage. Ironically, her second wedding coincided with my divorce– from none other than her son! I’d always assumed her life as a divorced woman was lonely and difficult, but she opened up and dissuaded me of that […]
How I found The Seed of my Novel Inside Troves of Historical Research
If we speak the truth fearlessly, we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.” – Lucy Stone Lucy Stone was one of the “triumvirate” of the Women’s Suffrage movement with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. However, she is […]
A Random Encounter Leads to Newsletter Happiness
A year into the pandemic, baby boomers (my age group) became eligible to get the vaccine in Massachusetts. Early on the morning of that first day, I joined hundreds of thousands of others trying to get on the state’s vaccine website. Ordinarily, websites are no problem for me. All day long, I navigate, sign in, […]
Ann Garvin interviews the characters of her novel I Thought You Said This Would Work
Three Frenemies risk their sanity on a cross country road trip with an enormous dog in a dilapidated camper all for the mutual love of a best friend in the hospital. “Ann Garvin navigates the twists and turns of female friendship like few writers working today. I THOUGHT YOU SAID THIS WOULD WORK is at once profound, […]
From Wonder Unto Wonder: Living A Storied Life
From Wonder Unto Wonder: Living A Storied Life Margaret Wolff Though I am an Art Therapist by training, I am, on a cellular level, a storyteller. It’s not just what I do as a writer; it’s how I move through the world. Everything about my life—about Life itself—is a good story. I began writing stories […]
TEARS OF AMBER by Sofía Segovia
When Mexican literary star Sofía Segovia’s Spanish language novel, El murmullo de las Abejas, was translated and published in English in 2019, The Washington Post praised Segovia as “a writer whose absorbing yet accessible prose and gift for sprinkling the mystical into a deeply human narrative is sure to draw comparisons to Latin American greats, […]
Juggling Life and Art: One Woman’s Story
For many women writers trying to achieve book publication, there are detours, roadblocks, and dead ends. The release of both my first book, Winded: A Memoir in Four Stages, in 2019, and my novel The Remnants of Summer this May illustrate the circuitous route some women and their books travel. In early 1993, when I […]
Dear Black Woman Writer
Dear Black Woman With A Pen, You say you want to be a writer. Here is how. Write. That is it. Writers write. You want to be a writer. You write. You are not stealing time. It may feel like there are more important things. There are children to feed; partners to tend to; elder […]
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