I may have shared this video before. But today I’m talking about Louise Erdrich’s “The Red Convertible” with my American literature students, and yesterday afternoon I had a conversation with a friend about how women get writing done. Erdrich, who has five children, offers some poetic advice. It’s a good one to mark as a favorite […]
Emma’s choir took first place today in a competition in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Emma sings high soprano, and she has a gorgeous voice. She also has a passion for music, and it’s rare that the tinny sound of her tunes aren’t trailing along in her wake. You have to get her to take out her ear […]
While preparing for my library talk about Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, I made a number of discoveries, many of them about my own process. So, in no particular order: 1. No matter how busy and overwhelmed I was on various other projects, doing a small amount of work every day toward the library […]
This Wednesday–tomorrow–at the downtown branch of the Everett Public Library, 7 p.m.–I will be talking about and (if all goes as planned) leading a discussion about Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This is a sentimental book, racist, political to the point of being propaganda. It is also a very powerful book and an important part […]