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....
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 25, 2015 | 1 true thing |
I tend to save things rather than use them. I think it started in high school with clothes. I would save a shirt for a date before I would wear it to school. Hand lotion. The shampoo-conditioner-soap sets from hotel rooms. I mean, if you used one of those things, the...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 24, 2015 | 1 true thing |
I was a child in the 60’s, and I still think hippies are cool. ~ 365 true things about me
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 23, 2015 | 1 true thing |
After reading, and thinking about and responding to, the comments from yesterday, I’d like to state for the record that even on the surface the jobs I’ve held show a lot more about me than I thought they did–and those things I will come back to–but...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 22, 2015 | about the current writer, first novels, stories |
I have been looking into schedules. Even when we read physics, we inquire of each least particle, What then shall I do this morning? How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule...
