by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 28, 2010 | continuous life, Dani Shapiro, life |
Devotion, the new memoir by Dani Shapiro, is divided into 102 sections. Number 54 is one of my favorites. In it, Dani writes about two subjects that have intrigued me for some time. The first one not surprisingly has to do with memory. She writes: “Why do we...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 10, 2010 | Dani Shapiro, journeys, life, memoir |
“Yogis use a beautiful Sanskrit word samskara, to describe the knots of energy that are locked in the hips, the heart, the jaw, the lungs. Each knot tells a story–a narrative rich with emotional detail. Release a samskara and you release the story. Release...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Dec 27, 2009 | craft of writing, life, mfa, place, time |
As some of you know, French was my first passion. The summers after seventh, eighth, and ninth grades I spent seven to nine weeks in Ferrisburg, Vermont at Ecole Champlain, a French camp on Lake Champlain. I just loved it. While I was there, I had the opportunity to...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Dec 17, 2009 | catching moments, life, memoir, time |
My husband just forwarded me an email, sent to him by a law school and golfing buddy, with a YouTube video of Katrina Kenison, the long-time editor of the Best American Short Story series, reading a seven-minute excerpt from her new memoir. As an antidote to these...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Dec 11, 2009 | Dani Shapiro, life, time |
Behind me climbs a tower of papers, each one containing a thought or a quote or an article that I want to write about here. A few minutes ago, I started shuffling through the stack. About midway down, I stopped on a piece of graph paper on which I had scrawled these...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Nov 16, 2009 | catching moments, Columbus GA, life, my writing |
I thought if I wrote about it here either I might figure it out or maybe one of you would. You see, I’m working on my third piece of fiction where he tries to make an appearance. Which he in fact did last night in Columbus! In a 2001 (early, early) draft of my...
