Reading Jeff Goins’ beautifully written post Remembering September 11: A Reflection inspired me to write my own memories of 9/11. I was in my junior year of college at Crane School of Music. As usual, I was in the Crane building for the entire morning. The first I heard of the planes crashing was before my […]
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The Lesson of the Boggart
This morning I was listening to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and I had one of those (all too frequent) moments when I thought, “J.K. Rowling is a genius.” The scene I was listening to was the first Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson taught by Professor Lupin, where he introduces Harry and […]
Writing My Fear (Why I Didn’t Want Children)
I’m struggling a little with the current draft of my novel. The novel is written from four perspectives: two younger women named Rachel and Hannah, one younger man named Billy, and an older woman named Greta. I’m happy with the four characters and how their stories compliment each other. Now that I’m getting down into […]
Life Is About… Love
“Love is like riding or speaking French. If you don’t learn it young, it’s hard to get the trick of it later.” -Downton Abbey As a teacher, this quote really rings true to me. I teach nine- and ten-year-olds, so I spend a lot of time with children at a very formative age. You can […]
My Cancer’s Better Than Your Cancer
Thyroid cancer has been in the news lately, since the celebrity Brooke Burke-Charvet was diagnosed with it. I didn’t know who she was, but apparently she’s the co-host of Dancing With the Stars. (I’m a So You Think You Can Dance girl, myself.) It’s nice that thyroid cancer is getting some attention, because it’s largely […]
Halloween Hater
It’s my son’s first Halloween, which should be filling me with excitement. But it’s not. Because though he’s too young to know it now, eventually he’s going to find out that his mother is a not-so-closeted Halloween Hater. I’m not really sure how this started for me. When I was younger, I liked Halloween. I […]