My 13-year-old has been doing art doodles. I have found her at our local elementary school playground drawing them in a notebook. She usually holes up in her bedroom to draw. At one of our homework dates recently she talked me into buying her a cool sketchbook and sharpies. I recently found this photo on […]
Here’s a quote I came across yesterday — again — while cleaning my office. It’s from Scott Nadelson’s essay, “What About the Suffering?: the Quiet Power of Minor Characters,” which appeared in The Writer’s Chronicle in December of 2010 (and has been resurfacing in my office ever since). “[M]inor characters are bearers of possibility, but they […]
I Could Love You That Way The way a woman cleans house, tying her hair in a kerchief, knocking down cobwebs with a broom. All day gathering clothes and toys and books from beneath the beds, vacuuming under the couch cushions, scrubbing the drains, polishing the fixtures. I could love you that way, methodically, thoroughly, […]
One of the books I read in preparation for my English 101 class project is Making Habits, Breaking Habits by Jeremy Dean. “This book started,” Dean starts, “with an apparently simple question that seemed to have a simple answer: How long does it take to form a new habit?” (3). He makes short work of the myth […]