by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 3, 2015 | 1 true thing |
When the rain stopped, I decided to do some running intervals–something I haven’t felt like doing in ages. I put in my earphones and set off into the wind, and when my phone beeped that it was time to turn around, I kept going. ~ 365 true things...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 2, 2015 | 1 true thing |
I’m not as smart as I thought I was, and I would think I could make headway* on this one, but I still seem to be losing ground. *This expression, first recorded in 1887, uses headway in the nautical sense of “a vessel’s forward movement.” ~...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 1, 2015 | 1 true thing |
Slate Magazine has a series I recommend called the Slate Book Review author-editor conversation. I particularly enjoyed the conversations between Meg Wolitzer and Sarah McGrath and between Claire Messud and Robin Desser. The most recent installment features Joshua...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 1, 2015 | 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 CARMELA CIURARU. If you have a dog or a child, you...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 30, 2015 | 1 true thing |
75-year-old Lily Tomlin (who is now 76) gives a stellar performance in Grandma, and hats off to writer/director Paul Weitz for getting Grandma out of the kitchen, as well as for a terrific screenplay and story. And for his almost all-female cast. Weitz says he wrote...
