by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Mar 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 Miciah Bay Gault. 4:45 My...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 28, 2010 | continuous life, Dani Shapiro, life |
Devotion, the new memoir by Dani Shapiro, is divided into 102 sections. Number 54 is one of my favorites. In it, Dani writes about two subjects that have intrigued me for some time. The first one not surprisingly has to do with memory. She writes: “Why do we...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 25, 2010 | accumulation, reading |
One of my friends refers to me as “the scribe” because I like to write stuff down. And one of the things I write down is how many books I read a year. As my tower of unread books grows taller and spawns little towers, it’s a way to prove to myself...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 22, 2010 | reading, the day |
I haven’t had a morning in a while where I’ve allowed myself to drift from one thing to the next without accountability. When I was practicing law, I used to have to account for every six minutes. This morning I was trying to locate a Virginia Woolf quote...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 20, 2010 | craft of writing |
It’s true. I’m somewhere else. When I was home on Thursday for about fifteen hours, my husband said,”Glad you could stop by.” I didn’t plan to go on two trips in one week. It’s just that one was already planned when the opportunity...
