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Continue reading →: Global Nomads and TCKS- 19: The wish to hold places still
Some thoughts from Andre Aciman on the global nomad’s wish for past places not to have changed. Here he reflects on a return to Paris: When I returned twenty years later, with my wife, the city had hardly changed. I still remembered the station names; the café on Avenue Victor…
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Continue reading →: On Writing: Creativity and the Will
Many of my students fret about not having enough will power, enough will to bring their creative work into being. Others worry about the idleness that creative writing seems to require. They find that “unproductive” mental wandering hard to justify, when they ought, rather, to be accomplishing something. Here are some thoughts on the…
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Continue reading →: Global Nomads and TCKS- 18: Beauty as solace
Czeslaw Milosz on coping with departure and the curative powers of landscape: The classic result of all sudden ruptures and reversals is the rumination on one’s own worthlessness and the desire to punish oneself, known as delectatio morosa. I would never have been cured of it had it not been for…
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Continue reading →: Writing is a Humiliation Banquet
Please find here my piece recently published on She Writes, a wonderful website for women writers. NOTE: If you go to the post on that site you’ll find wonderful, funny, entertaining comments from readers in response to this humor piece. Also, my dear friend, the brilliant writer, Catherine Mayo, wrote…
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Continue reading →: Life Notes: Flannery O’Connor, Intellectual Virginity, and Turtles
When I was a girl I always wondered what a turtle’s body was like inside its shell. I imagined a very tender, rag doll of a being, slightly sticky, utterly vulnerable, a sort of worm with arms and legs. It was innocent as a pre-mature baby, a filmy membrane just…
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