I have now joined the ranks of MFA creative writing students, and feel happiness when I hear about my fellow students’ successes: a short story to be published in a literary magazine, a creative non-fiction piece shortlisted for a contest. Then I consider my own… Read More
My main experience with short stories has been high school English assignments: read this story, answer these questions, write this essay. Thirty years later, I’ve now been giving them a whirl for pleasure—and am finding they’re not how I remember them. Back then, short stories… Read More
A while ago, I wrote that dance is an art, not a sport, and shouldn’t be judged (and offered a similar argument about writing). I have now attended my first dance competition, as a mother of one of the dancers, and have expanded my opinion.… Read More
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