by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Dec 1, 2013 | How We Spend Our Days |
Annie Dillard wrote, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” On the first of each month, Catching Days hosts a guest writer in the series, “How We Spend Our Days.” Today, please welcome writer Matthew Limpede. I wake up at 11 a.m. It’s not a...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 18, 2013 | about the current writer, stories |
In The Writing Life, Annie Dillard wrote, I have been looking into schedules. Even when we read physics, we inquire of each least particle, What then shall I do this morning? How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 14, 2013 | catching moments |
One more thing about Henry VI, Part Three… Act 2, scene 5 is a miniature masterpiece–its first 124 lines anyway. It begins with King Henry going to sit by himself on a hill, after his wife has sent him away from the battle. There he thinks over his unhappy...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 8, 2013 | craft of writing, Pam Houston, place, Writing by Writers |
Five amazing days–October 16-20–at the Marconi Center in Tomales Bay for Writing By Writers’ first conference with Dorothy Allison, Ron Carlson, Pam Houston, Fenton Johnson (Fenton the Human), Antonya Nelson, and Carl Phillips. Morning workshops....
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 1, 2013 | How We Spend Our Days |
Annie Dillard wrote, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” On the first of each month, Catching Days hosts a guest writer in the series, “How We Spend Our Days.” Today, please welcome writer REBECCA MAKKAI. A I’m writing this from Ragdale, the...