by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 3, 2015 | 1 true thing, place, poetry, provincetown |
I was born in Rapid City, South Dakota, and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. I went to college in Davidson, North Carolina, and then lived for a year in France. I went to law school in Athens, Georgia, worked for two years in Atlanta, then got married, and agreed to move...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 2, 2015 | 1 true thing |
After not finding time to work on my novel for the third day in a row, I said to my husband yesterday, I’m going to have to start getting up early to work on my novel. I didn’t mean it. I’m not a morning person. In more than one sense. I do not rise...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 1, 2015 | 1 true thing |
Have been since my early days at Woolworth’s. Pens, pads, notebooks of all shapes and sizes. Paperclips, sticky notes, file folders. I LOVE them. ~ 365 true things about...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 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 Dylan Landis. I don’t believe in ritual—I have...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 31, 2015 | 1 true thing, provincetown |
When my youngest child entered high school and I could see that in four short years I would no longer be tethered to this house and to the school year, for the first time since my early twenties, I began to think about what kind of life I wanted. Have I mentioned that...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 30, 2015 | 1 true thing |
I used to know my own mind. Honestly, I had an opinion about everything. And I charged forth boldly. But something happened along the way, and I entered a period of mostly not knowing. Or not caring. Yikes. I think the something that happened was my allowing marriage...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 29, 2015 | 1 true thing |
It’s true. I deliberate. I stare at words, cross them out, and start again. So I have to come up with ways to get around my brain. In December of 2013 when I was pushing to finish a first draft of my novel, I discovered that if I wrote for word count, I...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 28, 2015 | 1 true thing |
It’s not that I want to be a rule-follower. I just grew up that way, but it doesn’t make any sense. It was the sixties, for god’s sake. There was Woodstock. Hippies were cool. But in eighth grade, at a Latin Convention (I know), I snuck out the...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 27, 2015 | 1 true thing |
When I was born, my parents gave me the name Cynthia Lee Newberry. I grew up as Cindy Newberry, the oldest of five. Those years at home–studying and fighting for the bathroom and following rules–were never going to end. I would never get to live my life....
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 26, 2015 | 1 true thing |
I’m a take-charge kind of person, a problem-solver. Perhaps I was born this way and then my predilection was honed by being the oldest of five. Or perhaps at the age of eighteen months when my sister was born, I decided it would be me rather than her. And so on....
