by Carole Duff | Aug 31, 2020 | Faith, Family, Writing and Reading |
While the remnants of hurricane Laura soaked the forest on Saturday morning, I sipped green tea and finished Janine Urbaniak Reid’s memoir The Opposite of Certainty. Reading about her brush with alcohol abuse in her teens and early twenties, I thought about the...
by Carole Duff | Apr 3, 2018 | Faith, Local or Human Interest |
“We’re actors – we’re the opposite of people!” So stated the character called The Player in Tom Stoppard’s play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, a fabulous production my family saw this past weekend at the American Shakespeare Center. As an absurdist...
by Susan Stilwell | Oct 6, 2020
Brevity Blog: The Road to Publication for a Writer of a Certain Age, August 5, 2024 Becoming a Writer in the Third Chapter of Life, May 17, 2022 Pulling Weeds and Telling Stories, July 27, 2020 Review of Leslie Leyland Fields’ Your Story Matters, June 5, 2020 Of...
by Carole Duff | Jun 12, 2023 | Faith |
Richard Rohr in Things Hidden: Scripture As Spirituality: “People want their lives and history to be predictable and controllable, and the best way to do that is to try to control and even manipulate the gods.” One pre-dawn morning, I dreamed about hosting an Open...