by Carole Duff | Aug 21, 2012 | Family, Writing and Reading |
When I lived in Baltimore, my neighborhood book club read Ian McEwan’s Atonement. A few years later, I saw the movie. Ah, if only I could write with McEwan’s fine precision and capture the film’s brilliant cinematographic scenes. But there was a problem: I hated the...
by Carole Duff | Jul 30, 2012 | Family, Writing and Reading |
Last week in my class at the Writer’s Center, I read a selection from the middle of my book. As usual, I received very helpful comments and suggestions ranging from conceptual to craft. Perhaps because the story I told had to do with the twenty-year span involving my...
by Carole Duff | Jul 17, 2012 | Family, Nature |
Have you ever been driving along in a rain shower, which suddenly turns into a blinding, thundering downpour? It’s not as if you didn’t see the storm coming. There had been plenty of warning. Looking out your bedroom windows while getting dressed for dinner, clouds...
by Carole Duff | Jul 9, 2012 | Local or Human Interest, Writing and Reading |
Life is uncertain…eat dessert first. Remember that t-shirt slogan? On vacation last week, Keith and I visited Michie Tavern in Charlottesville. We helped ourselves to the buffet in the Necessary, ate in the Keeping Hall and shared a dessert of peach cobbler a la mode....
by Carole Duff | Jun 28, 2012 | Local or Human Interest, Writing and Reading |
“You’d think I’d asked to sleep with the football team.” “Ok, Tweeple, let’s clean up the language.” “I became a vegetarian in Africa.” “You might not know, but I’m watching you.” Sitting around the seminar table, Keith and I listened to opening lines written by...
by Carole Duff | Jun 18, 2012 | Faith, Writing and Reading |
Last Thanksgiving, I wrote about pride and humility. Today, with yet another graduation speech trending on the Internet, I’m thinking about self-conceit in a different context. Earlier this month, Wellesley High School English teacher David McCullough,...
