by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 1, 2010 | 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 Louise W. Knight: Today I’m dealing with lists. I...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 30, 2010 | place |
At the beginning of summer, Ari Weinzweig wrote about Eudora Welty’s potato salad in the Atlantic. He did not list the ingredients as I do below; instead he wrote sentences about them. “As always, for me, the story behind the food is...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 27, 2010 | reviews |
Jane Addams was a political activist who worked toward, and spoke out, for social justice, including women’s suffrage. I had heard of her but had no idea… In Jane Addams: Spirit in Action by Louise W. Knight, I discovered that Jane cofounded the NAACP and...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 26, 2010 | life |
I don’t hear much about biographies anymore–or autobiographies. Now it’s all about memoir. Not the whole life but a slant on it. Still, biographies are being written. A Pulitzer Prize is given each year for a biography. In 2010, the prize went to The...
