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Illumination Authors: When Friendship Makes a Book of Names
Before she and Jill Gregory wrote their first book, The Book of Names, Karen Tintori was just beginning to write fiction after a career in public relations. Then she met Gregory, whose novels have...
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Katherine McNamara: “It’s about moving into the unoccupied spaces”
Katherine McNamara started crashing people’s expectations early – peeling off to Paris in the middle of a Cornell history Ph.D. and learning she was a poet, striking out for Alaska just as the oil...
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A Tribute to Carol Ann Duffy
The empire on which the sun once never set has finally become enlightened. Britain has named its first female poet laureate. Ever frank, ever bold, ever herself, Carol Ann Duffy was a reluctant...
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My Mother Dancing at 90: Some Things Never Change
Mother’s Day week has always been the week of my mother’s birthday. She will be 90 years old on Wednesday, May 6. We are going home to celebrate this weekend. It is an astonishing number: 90 years. And...
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Poetry Friday: Mother’s Day for Peace
As we wrap-up our week-long Mother’s Day observance at WVFC, we decided that Poetry Friday belonged to the poem that started it all: the proclamation written in 1870 by Julia Ward Howe in the aftermath...
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On Graduation Weekend, Marking the Passing of Time
Most people must have unconscious ways to measure the passage of time. Some calculate all that a mirror can show; others mark the change in physical stamina. Most use the obvious, like the ages of...
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Memories of Summer’s Beginning
Nothing has changed in my consultation room since I began the practice of solo obstetrics and gynecology there in July, 1983. I was in my second year of private practice, I had a 4 day old son, and I...
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The Everyday Terrorists
In my office I deal with terrorists every day. Their weaponry is words. They don’t torture me but daily commit cruel verbal attacks on others. “He won’t talk to me,” she complained. “I tell him what a...
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The Compass Rose: View from the South Wall
The house sat facing the street, on a gentle grassy slope punctuated by liriope and ivy. The curving stone wall which graced the front boundary and each side of the driving entrance had been built over...
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Staying Motivated to Stay Healthy
As the icy wind howls (for many of us) and we all get back into our weekly routines, it can be hard to believe the resolutions we made in the glitter and shine of New Year’s Eve: making time for the...
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