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Family On Bikes – Sticking Together?
May 13, 2012
After two routine-bitten years, it looked like the storybook romance wasn’t going to survive the prosaic facts of married life. Nancy was down to one idea: apply for work as a couple, teaching at an international school. John thought she was nuts.
One Revolution at a Time – Family On Bikes
May 4, 2012
Nancy is an extraordinary woman disguised as a bead-work-loving Boise soccer mom but - as she'll be the first to say - her secret is that there is no secret. There was no single magic moment that transformed her settled life into a non-stop adventure. It was a choice, a choice she had to make daily, hourly, sometimes with every turn of the peddle. Here, in an excerpt from my work, Nancy describes the distinctly non-triumphal beginning of the Family on Bikes saga:
Recommended Reading – Non-Fiction
April 30, 2012
Factual writing, done right, calls for curiosity, insight, empathy, humility and the willingness to face (as Orwell puts it) unpleasant facts.
Writers On Writing – Frances Hwang
April 16, 2012
You can only progress as a writer if you write, and the more you write the more you understand and trust the process of writing. I’d urge you to get into the habit of finishing work. The temptation to abandon a piece can be great (and no doubt there are times when you do need to let something go), but you learn more and feel a real sense of accomplishment when you complete something.
Excerpts On Writing – Hemingway’s Boat Response
March 18, 2012
The writing is a sustained, beautiful sleight-of-hand peppered with parenthetical rabbits popping out of hats. The delicate, ruthless details (asking the fading old man to disinter his dead wife's wedding dress), the moments of private meditation
The Secret Life of Language
March 7, 2012
"Dr James Pennebaker, though, defies expectations. A renowned researcher, author, and chair of the psychology department at the University of Texas at Austin, he blends down-to-earth bonhomie with a taste for Lanesborough Hotel martinis, and hones his brilliant mind with long-distance running."
Pity The Rich
March 1, 2012
There doesn't seem to be much joy in being that kind of rich, even with the sweetener of fabulous jewels and $25,000 worth of couture every season.
Lucy Kellaway on Writing Right
February 23, 2012
Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times is my new literary crush. She writes acerbic, funny, insightful things about language and its (mis)-uses. Think George Orwell's 'Politics and the English Language' for the 21st century.
The Myth of the Writer’s Life
February 19, 2012
The problem with looking for artistic validation in unhappiness, though, is that only the unhappiness is guaranteed; the art is still up to you.
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