by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 16, 2011 | accumulation |
I’ve been sitting too much–novel, lecture, mfa, Contrary, Hunger Mountain, facebook, email, bills, purchases, photos… I noticed that my running injury from last December got worse, not when I ran but, when I sat for 10 hours. I’d been looking...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 12, 2011 | craft of writing, details, the day, time |
write blog post read over 5 pages of novel-details (every day 5 pages) make airline reservations for Oct trip to California out buy birthday gifts (8 birthdays in 10 days in sept) exercise grocery (supper!) make copy of photo call cancel exercise apt in Atl Dad Claire...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 8, 2011 | accumulation, catching moments, Columbus GA |
Not sure which is my favorite season, but I have both fall and winter to look forward to, one right after the other. Last Friday morning, I opened the back door and felt cool air outside– 72 degrees in Columbus, Georgia....
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 1, 2011 | 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 Heidi Durrow: I only hope that today will be the...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 31, 2011 | first novels, reviews |
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, the debut novel by Heidi Durrow, is a story that will make you ache in all the best ways. Barbara Kingsolver chose it as the winner of the Bellwether Prize for Fiction in 2008, and it was published by Algonquin in 2010. It is a story...
