Christmas Trees by Robert Frost A Christmas Circular Letter The city had withdrawn into itself And left at last the country to the country; When between whirls of snow not come to lie And whirls of foliage not yet laid, there drove A stranger to our yard, who looked the city, Yet did […]
I got this idea from Jennifer K’s blog, which I follow. She has five great ideas. I’ll add a couple more. My top gift ideas for writers? 1. Housecleaning! Because how can I justify sitting here, writing, when my house is so dusty? When it badly needs vacuumed? The kitchen! The bathrooms! 2. Another book. […]
It’s a time of year for gift giving. If you were going to give someone your top ten books, what would those ten books be? My friend Janet writes: I wish your readers would share “what they reread.” If you put it that way: all of Jane Austen every couple years. All of Dorothy L […]
“Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.” ― Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose I was killing time in a book store earlier, and I picked up Theo Pauline Nestor’s Writing Is My Drink. It is exactly the sort of book I find addictive: part memoir, part […]