Writer. Contributing Editor at The Discarded Image. Digital Content Strategist. Here's where I publicly explore the books I'm reading, the projects I'm working on, and other current interests. Category Archives for Your turn
Found in a state park gift shop
I’ve been busy this week catching up on stuff after a crash weekend trip to visit some of my husband’s family in Kentucky. I took a couple books with me, expecting not to have access to any reading materials, but … Continue reading
special occasions and everyday books
I know I just mentioned my husband a couple posts ago (where I introduced his new book on Katherine Parr), but last week saw another cause for celebration in his career: he was appointed Assistant Professor of Historical and Theological … Continue reading
The Namesake
Gogol Ganguli, born in the U.S. to Bengali parents, hates his name. He cannot understand what possessed his parents to saddle him with such an odd and seemingly-irrelevant name, and he spends his early adult years trying to reinvent himself. … Continue reading
Well Said: paradoxes of the writing life
Poet and fiction writer Ken Barris describing a literary awards ceremony in which he lost to another writer: The moment captures a schism that runs through my life as a writer. It is the difference between public and private self. … Continue reading
Currently reading
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.† So said Henry Miller, American novelist.  I call this (as Madeleine L’Engle did, from whom I stole it) “living ontologically.”  Being. Experiencing. Questioning. … Continue reading
