This year, my husband gave me a Page-a-Day calendar to learn Italian. Today’s page was a dialogue between two men at a bus stop, getting
A year ago, I wrote about our “rastafarian” Joseph and the challenges of writing about other people’s cultures: Skin-colored Felt: Doing other people’s cultures wrong.
A blank EtchASketch makes it pretty clear that I’ll be doodling around in squares because the drawing dot only moves in four directions, each at
This is the seventh (and final!) post in a short series on preparing for (and thriving during) National Novel Writing Month. The first post collects
This is the sixth post in a short series on preparing for (and thriving during) National Novel Writing Month. The first post collects story ingredients
This is the fifth post in a short series on preparing for (and thriving during) National Novel Writing Month. The first post collects story ingredients
This is the fourth post in a short series on preparing for (and thriving during) National Novel Writing Month. You can find the first post
This is the third post in a short series on preparing for National Novel Writing Month. You can find the first post about collecting ingredients
Here’s the second post in a short series on preparing for National Novel Writing Month. You can find the first post here. Mom always said
A friend (waving to Jane!) asked me how to prepare for National Novel Writing Month and after I sent her the third e-mail, suggested I
When my older brother and I were 8 or 10 or 12 years old, Mom would turn off the Olympic Games because we got so
Every year on October 3, Germany celebrates the Tag der Deutschen Einheit, (literally, the “Day of German Unity.”) It’s the day when East and West
