by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 29, 2009 | catching moments, craft of writing, memory, reviews |
“We weren’t really stealing them…But we call it stealing to make it more exciting.” Per Petterson is a writer who can stand inside a moment, turn in a circle and look up and down until there is no inch of that moment left unexplored. Mary...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 9, 2009 | catching moments, journeys, place, the day |
Last night around 10:15, I was driving into San Francisco and fireworks were going off across the bay. I got a little lost, but my gps saved me. Around eleven pm, I was crossing the Golden Gate Bridge. Amazing. Today, a gray day in Sausalito, I found a small,...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Mar 22, 2009 | catching moments, Dani Shapiro, journeys, place |
“Travel brings out my need for order.” Picturing the Wreck by Dani Shapiro Boarding passes, passports, confirmations. Scarves, coats, coffees, carry-ons. Phones, laptops, ipods, kindles. Chargers, adapters, converters. And then there are the liquids...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Mar 15, 2009 | catching moments, journeys, place |
“I’m so busy scribbling and crossing out I almost miss … More and more the moments come to me: how much can the right word do?” from “The Notebook” by Mary Oliver House of...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Mar 1, 2009 | catching moments, Columbus GA, the day |
I had this lovely idea for a March first post, a sort of spring-is-on-the-way kind of thing, and this morning I stubbornly forged ahead with it. I mean, I’d planned it, been thinking about it for days. In fact, I posted it for a few minutes–complete with...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 18, 2009 | catching moments, Columbus GA, poetry |
Don’t allow the lucid moment to dissolve Let the radiant thought last in stillness though the page is almost filled and the flame flickers –Adam Zagajewski from Without End This is one of my favorite poems, the title of which is the first line. It’s...
