. . . A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS
In addition to the melodic list of favorite things that Maria sings about in The Sound of Music (which just happens to be one of my...
"PETIT A PETIT, L'OISEAU FAIT SON NID."
"Little by little, the bird builds its nest." As a writer, I return to this French proverb so frequently that it is as familiar to me as...
WRITERS' WRITERS: PENNING LETTERS
"The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters." --Lewis Carroll Whenever, as a writer, I arrive at the point where the...
LETTER WRITING: "More than kisses, letters mingle souls." John Donne
Harper Lee. William Styron. Donald Hall. Kaye Gibbons. Katherine Applegate. Lisa Wingate. Brian Selznick. Glenn Taylor. Each one,...
TRUMAN CAPOTE & SCISSORS
"I'm all for the scissors. I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil." Anyone who knows me -- family, friends, teachers,...
BOO!
The very first thing I think of whenever I hear the expression Boo! is the character Boo Radley from Harper Lee's classic, To Kill a...
