by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 20, 2012 | accumulation, life, my writing, reading |
I’ve been doing too much, or trying to do too much. Contrary, Hunger Mountain, Catching Days, writing group, writing, family, life, read… Wait a minute. I haven’t been reading all that much. I used to read every evening–from after supper until...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Mar 11, 2012 | catching moments, journeys, life, the day, truth |
One thing I know for sure: I do not like large groups. Socializing sucks my brain cells and replaces them with that noise that used to come on TVs after a station had gone off the air. But talking to one or two or even three people at the edge of the bar, our feet on...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 19, 2011 | accumulation, catching moments, continuous life, life, the day, time |
And you wipe the snow out of your hair and get back into your car and drive off toward an accumulation of the usual daily stuff–there is dinner to be made and laundry to be done and helping the kids with their homework and watching television on the couch with...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 8, 2011 | life, reading, shapes, the day, time |
I adore this portrait of May Sarton. I used it in a blog post on August 8, 2009. I also used some of the same quotes, but I had a very different reaction to them two years ago. There is nothing to be done but go ahead with life moment by moment and hour by...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jun 26, 2011 | craft of writing, journeys, life, mfa |
I am at this minute high in the sky on my way to Vermont for my fourth residency, about to begin my last semester at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. How fast the time has gone. And I have loved every second of it–the residencies, the packets, the advisers, the...
