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Continue reading →: A SPY STORY: A Spy Beholds Himself – I recollect the day my covert operative father saw le Carré’s first film
For me, a convention-bound girl, it was a glimmer of something significant. For my father, it was as if the very first day had dawned. The year was 1966. My family was on vacation in Germany—we were posted to The Hague then, I was about twelve—and my father, who I…
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Continue reading →: How to Write a Memoir: Five Ways of Getting Started
If you want to write a memoir and don’t quite know how to begin, you might start with one of the following five tried and true methods. The methods may be taken up in any order, singly, or not at all. But then again, “not at all” might mean just…
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Continue reading →: A Spy Story: How my Friend Discovered her Father was a Spy
One day last fall I saw an old friend from childhood days in The Netherlands. It was the first time we’d seen each other in forty-four years. I had always liked her, but we’d lost touch once we both left Holland, she for boarding school in England and me for…
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Continue reading →: Writing, Stillness and Joy
It is a grey, rain-lit new years day. Pico Iyer’s piece in the New York Times this first 2012 morning –on the unrelenting stream of information with which we are bombarded—hits the mark, I think. He quotes Blaise Pascal, the 17th century French philosopher: “Distraction is the only thing that consoles…
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Continue reading →: Lisbon Book Launch
It seemed both needlessly grand, and yet somehow fitting, for Lisbon to be the place I should launch my new book, set my newest baby in its paper boat out to sea. As it happened, this was how things came to pass, and it was my great luck and privilege…
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