It’s helpful to encourage myself with an inspiration I share not just with fellow writers and readers, but with everyone who from time-to-time needs reminding that we are all truly capable of great, bridging and unifying, and enduring things. I quote Carl Sagan: “What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made …
A review of Life of Pi I simply had to write and share Awe. Amazement. Jaw-dropping insight. Soul-jolting inspiration. Glimpses of God. This is not hyperbole. Life of Pi, both movie and novel, brought me to my writer’s knees, humbling me is too kind, humiliating me as a novelist myself, more like it. But a month since reading …
I was going to write, actually I did write, a blog about the joys of getting back to what drives me: writing. But the blog I wrote initially had to be tossed. It sounded so saccharine after the full reality of The Sausage Maker’s Daughters caught up with me. You see, I spent much of last week …
A few Sundays ago, “60 Minutes” had an interesting segment on the former CFO of now-defunct Lehman Brothers, Erin Callan, a pretty 47-year-old who took issue with the new COO of Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg. The latter attests that women haven’t broken the glass ceiling in number because women don’t “lean in,” her parlance for “go for …
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Or how ridding my body of toxins positively affected everything Let’s face it: the American way of life will kill you. Or how ridding my body of toxins positively affected everything. Although I may reside in Southern California, my Midwestern roots are still strong, strong enough for me to assume, and vow never to try, …
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