by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jul 23, 2015 | 1 true thing, Columbus GA, obsession |
I have a thing for little houses in a row. It’s the matching in a world of randomness that draws her to the houses. On the outside, for all to see, they belong to each other. Proudly. Yes, they say, there is something alike about us and we need each other to be whole....
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jul 17, 2015 | 1 true thing, obsession |
Seeing the wash hanging on a clothesline makes me feel good. It has long been an obsession of mine. I don’t know where it came from–I’ve hardly ever done it myself. I do remember a children’s book, We Help Mommy, illustrated by Eloise Wilkins,...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jul 21, 2014 | my writing, obsession, stories |
The summer issue of Contrary Magazine is out, and I’m excited to have a story in there, “Hidden Tracks”–the strangest story I’ve ever written actually–right beside “Blue Moon,” a wonderful story by my friend Jodi Paloni....
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jun 18, 2014 | my writing, obsession, provincetown |
Since I started Catching Days back in 2008, it’s been my policy (also my personality) not to do the group blog things. Which made it easy to decline the first time someone asked me to join the my-writing-process blog tour. It was less easy to say no the...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 17, 2014 | about the current writer, craft of writing, How We Spend Our Days, memoir, obsession |
In The Writing Life, Annie Dillard wrote, 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...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Dec 28, 2013 | accumulation, catching moments, continuous life, journeys, life, obsession, place, provincetown |
My end-of-the-year tally for 2013 is not how many books I read but how many days I spent in Provincetown. Every month, I was there. Usually for a week–one month for more, two months for less. Writing, reading, walking, cycling, eating, drinking,...
