Posted in Art, Authors, Bones, Books, Creative Nonfiction, Gratitude, Memoir, Practice, Relationships, Taos, Vision, Writers, Writing, tagged artists, author interviews, becoming a writer, friendships, interview with Natalie Goldberg, loneliness, mentors, Natalie Goldberg, Old Friend from Far Away, teachers as mentors, the black dog, the writer's life, wild mind, Writing Down The Bones, writing memoir, writing practice, writing process, writing relationships, writing with students on May 13, 2008 | 27 Comments »
Old Friend from Far Away by Natalie Goldberg, images provided by Simon & Schuster, photo of Goldberg © 2008 by Mary Feidt. All rights reserved.
On Thursday, April 10, QuoinMonkey and ybonesy interviewed Natalie Goldberg, author of the recently released Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir. The interview was especially meaningful in [...]
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Posted in Architecture, Art, Books, Great Places To Write, Haiku, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Skies, Structure, Writers, Writing, tagged cities, Fifth Street Towers, libraries, Minneapolis Central Library, Minneapolis Skyline, the practice of haiku on May 7, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Refraction, downtown Minnesota Central Library, March 2008, during Talk of the Stacks. Ali Selim and Will Weaver discussed the making of Sweet Land. The moment this photograph was taken, they were sitting to the left, signing books. The curved blue lines are the Fifth Street Towers. Photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
blue light [...]
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Posted in 25 Things, Art, Authors, Books, Creative Nonfiction, Culture, Fiction, Film / TV / Video, Growing Older, Money, Music, Photography, Politics, Reading, Writers, Writing, tagged 1970's Bestsellers, 1970's history, American bestsellers, goddess of poetry, goddess of wisdom, how literature enriches life, Jakob H. F. Fjelde, literature, Minerva, Minneapolis Central Library, the 1970's on April 24, 2008 | 22 Comments »
Minerva, 1889 - 1890, Roman goddess of poetry, music, wisdom, and warriors (Greek, Athena), bronze sculpture by Norwegian American artist, Jakob H. F. Fjelde, downtown Minneapolis Central Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
The first black hole was discovered in the same decade that Star Wars was released (and not by Columbo, [...]
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Posted in Authors, Bones, Books, Creative Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir, On the Road, Relationships, Spirituality, Writers, Writing, tagged An Evening with Elizabeth Gilbert and Anne Lamott, Anne Lamott, Bird By Bird, books about spirituality, Carolyn Flynn, Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, Operating Instructions, Ruth Stone, spiritual paths, Traveling Mercies, UCLA events on April 9, 2008 | 33 Comments »
By Carolyn Flynn
For red Ravine
SAGE Editor, author and redRavine.com contributor Carolyn Flynn recently attended “An Evening with Elizabeth Gilbert and Anne Lamott” on the UCLA campus.
To loosen up before writing a new book, Elizabeth Gilbert invites one person to join her and live inside her head. She says she wrote Eat Pray Love as a [...]
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Posted in Art of Rebellion, Authors, Bones, Books, Death, Love, Memoir, Obituaries & Epitaphs, Photography, Place, Quotes, Relationships, Silence, Taos, Writers, Writing, tagged Angelo Ravagli, D. H. Lawrence, epitaphs, Frieda Lawrence, Kiowa Ranch, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Not I But The Wind, relatives of the Red Baron, Til Death Do Us Part on March 16, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Not I, But The Wind, tombstone of Frieda Lawrence, near Taos, New Mexico, February 2007, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Emma Maria Frieda Johanna Freiin
(Baroness) von Richthofen
In Memory of twenty five years of incomparable companionship - Angie
Emma Maria Frieda Johanna Freiin (Baroness) von Richthofen was a distant relative of the “Red Baron” [...]
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Posted in Authors, Bones, Books, Creative Nonfiction, Memoir, Writers, Writing, tagged A Girl Named Zippy, A Million Little Pieces, Alexandra Fuller, Augusten Burroughs, Beverly Donofrio, Creative Nonfiction, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, fabricated memoir, Haven Kimmel, James Frey, Lee Gutkind, Looking for Mary, Love and Consequences, Margaret B. Jones, Margaret Seltzer, Mary Karr, Misha Defonseca, Running with Scissors, The Liars' Club, writing memoir on March 4, 2008 | 24 Comments »
What do James Frey — author of A Million Little Pieces — and Margaret Seltzer (who last week published a book under pseudonym Margaret B. Jones) have in common? Both wrote acclaimed memoirs that turned out to be fabrications.
Today The New York Times article ”Gang Memoir, Turning Page, Is Pure Fiction” detailed how Seltzer, who is white and grew [...]
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Posted in Authors, Bones, Books, Dreams, Personal, Photography, Practice, Reading, Structure, Writers, Writing, tagged Ann Patchett, Anne Lamott, book talk, Do You Let Yourself Read?, Natalie Goldberg, Sinclair Lewis, the practice of reading, the structure of writing, the value of staring into space on February 23, 2008 | 104 Comments »
Do You Let Yourself Read?, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 2007, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
I had a voicemail from one of my writing friends yesterday. She said she was frustrated because she wasn’t giving herself time to read. Last year, she had structured it in: made a reading list, read the Classics over [...]
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Posted in Authors, Bones, Books, Creative Nonfiction, Gratitude, Memoir, Photography, Practice, Quotes, Reading, Structure, Writers, Writing, tagged bookstores, Common Good Books, giving back, how to write memoir, mentors, Minnesota, Natalie Goldberg, new book releases, Old Friend from Far Away, support Independent bookstores, writing community, writing practice on February 18, 2008 | 36 Comments »
Old Friend From Far Away, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
I bought Natalie Goldberg’s new book, Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir, on February 14th, Valentine’s Day. Actually, Liz bought it for me, the creative version of romance - a writer’s gift. We visited Common [...]
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Posted in Art of Rebellion, Authors, Bones, Books, Culture, Dreams, Gratitude, Growing Older, I Don't Remember, Life, Personal, Politics, Practice, Silence, Topic Writing, Wake Up, Writing Practices, tagged Enrique Rivera, fighting the good fight, finding your voice, Human Rights, John Lewis, Martin Luther King, memories, Shirley Chisholm, stepping out of silence, Temple Grandin, the 1960's, Walking with the Wind on January 25, 2008 | 12 Comments »
I don’t remember Martin Luther King in 1962 or ‘63 when I was 8 or 9 or 10. I don’t remember him when I lived in the South. I must have been sheltered from all the strife and unrest that was going on during those years. I would not have understood.
I do remember him in [...]
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Posted in 25 Things, Body, Bones, Books, Haiku, Labyrinths, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Quotes, Seasons, Silence, Structure, Wake Up, Writers, Writing, tagged Basho, Beginner's Mind, Clark Strand, Ghost Ranch, haiku (one-a-day), haiku as practice, haiku walk, how to write haiku, meditation, Natalie Goldberg, Seeds from a Birch Tree, walking the labyrinth on January 15, 2008 | 303 Comments »
Skin Of A River Birch, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 2007, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
haiku (one-a-day)
This post was created for a very specific purpose: writing a haiku a day. Some of our readers have expressed an interest in haiku. And some have left haiku in our comments on various posts. I wanted to [...]
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Posted in Authors, Books, Creative Nonfiction, Film / TV / Video, Gratitude, Memoir, Practice, Silence, Spirituality, Structure, Wake Up, Writers, Writing, tagged how to write memoir, mentors, Natalie Goldberg, new book releases, Old Friend from Far Away, video, writing practice on January 10, 2008 | 26 Comments »
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Natalie Goldberg, Old Friend from Far Away - The Practice of Writing Memoir, December 21st, 2007 (to play video, click either green arrow twice)
Natalie Goldberg has a new book coming out on February 12th, Old Friend from Far Away - The Practice Of Writing Memoir. One of our readers [...]
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Posted in Animals & Critters, Body, Bones, Books, Death, Growing Older, Holding My Breath, Home, Life, Love, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Quotes, Relationships, Silence, Structure, Writers, Writing, tagged December (Christmas Box), Fitzgerald Theater, Galway Kinnell, Josephine Dickinson, MPR Talking Volumes, Silence Fell, Strong Is Your Hold, Where Were You When I Came In From The Evening Milking, Writers Hands, Writers reading their work, writing through grief on January 9, 2008 | 28 Comments »
Writers Hands VI, Josephine Dickinson, Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota, April 2007, all photos © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Josephine Dickinson read her poetry at the Fitzgerald Theater last April, sharing the stage with her mentor, Galway Kinnell. She met Galway at a poetry reading at Morden Tower in Northumberland. She was drawn to [...]
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Posted in Authors, Bones, Books, Creative Nonfiction, Photography, Poetry, Practice, Quotes, Structure, Wake Up, Writers, Writing, tagged Fitzgerald Theater, Galway Kinnell, Hide-and-Seek, Josephine Dickinson, letting go, MPR Talking Volumes, Natalie Goldberg, Ode and Elegy, Strong Is Your Hold, We Are Not the Poem, Writers Hands, Writers reading their work, Writing Down The Bones on December 12, 2007 | 27 Comments »
Curtains At The Fitzgerald, night of Galway Kinnell, Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota, April 2007, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
I pulled a Galway Kinnell book off the shelf last night while Liz was completing her take home final. We sat on the couch in dim midnight light, pecking at slippery keys. (One [...]
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Posted in Body, Bones, Books, Culture, Gratitude, Great Places To Write, Home, Photography, Place, Practice, Quotes, Seasons, Silence, Spirituality, Structure, Taos, Vision, Wake Up, Writers, Writing, tagged Beginner's Mind, Buddha, December, Mabel Dodge Luhan House, meditation, Natalie Goldberg, New Mexico, religion, Rohatsu, Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, sit like the mountain, sit-walk-write, solidarity, Taos, winter, Writing Down The Bones, writing practice, writing retreats, Zen on December 4, 2007 | 31 Comments »
Afternoon Meditation, Mabel Dodge Luhan House, Taos, New Mexico, February 2007, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
In writing practice this morning, ybonesy and I both wrote about sitting in solidarity with our writing friends at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos. Most Decembers, Natalie holds a writing retreat during the period around [...]
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Posted in Authors, Bones, Books, Culture, Dreams, Fiction, Haiku, On the Road, Photography, Poetry, Quotes, Reading, Structure, Vision, Writers, Writing, tagged Art of Rebellion, book reviews, Books, boundary busters, interviews, Jack Kerouac, Jack Kerouac Does Haiku, Joyce Johnson, Kerouac Speaks, MacNeil/Lehrer, NPR, On the Road, On The Road Scroll Exhibition Tour, Some American Haikus, Women of the Beat Generation, writers who changed the face of writing on November 29, 2007 | 33 Comments »
On The Road, Summer 2007, Minneapolis, Minnesota, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
In September 2007, I finished reading On The Road. It was the day the book turned 50. I have this thing for Kerouac. I consider him the James Dean of writers. I guess I’m easily swayed by myth.
On The Road didn’t [...]
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Posted in Authors, Bones, Books, Dreams, I Don't Remember, Maps, Quotes, Random, Vision, Wake Up, Writers, Writing, tagged commitment, Goethe, Mountaineering In Scotland, Providence, Quotes, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition, W. H. Murray on November 21, 2007 | 11 Comments »
I write often about the movement of Providence. She is tied to Goethe’s dreams, but she is not Goethe. Each time I write of Providence, I can’t remember the quote that stands behind my words. They are the words of Scottish expeditionist, W. H. Murray.
So I don’t forget:
But when I said that nothing had been [...]
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Posted in 25 Things, Authors, Bones, Books, Culture, Death, Dreams, Fiction, Fotoblog, Life, Love, Memoir, Photography, Politics, Quotes, Reading, Relationships, Structure, Vision, Writers, Writing, tagged Ann Patchett, Bel Canto, Fitzgerald Theater, interviews, Kerri Miller, Lucy Grealy, Memoir, Minnesota, St Paul, Talking Volumes, The Second Coming, Truth & Beauty, W. B. Yeats, Writers, writers on tour, Writing, writing relationships on November 6, 2007 | 31 Comments »
Writer’s Hands IV, hands of Bel Canto author, Ann Patchett, signing a copy of her latest book, Run, Fitzgerald Theater, downtown St. Paul, Minnesota, October 2007, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Part I.
On a rainy October night, inside the haunted Fitzgerald Theater, Ann Patchett held the audience rapt. She has created a huge life [...]
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Posted in Authors, Books, Fiction, Memoir, Photography, Practice, Relationships, Structure, Wake Up, Writers, Writing, Writing Topics, tagged Ann Patchett, Fitzgerald Theater, grief, joy, loss, Lucy Grealy, Practice, Truth & Beauty, Writers, Writing, Writing Topics on October 28, 2007 | 24 Comments »
What Have You Lost, Rainpainting Series, outside the Fitzgerald Theater, downtown, St. Paul, Minnesota, night of Ann Patchett, October 2007, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
If you want to know someone, truly know someone, ask them about the things they have lost. No matter how long it’s been. It doesn’t matter. The things we [...]
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Posted in Authors, Books, Creative Nonfiction, Dreams, Gratitude, Great Places To Write, Memoir, Photography, Practice, Reading, Writers, Writing, tagged Authors, Candyfreak, community, hands, Minneapolis Central Library, Not That You Asked, Steve Almond, Writers, Writing on October 12, 2007 | 28 Comments »
Writer’s Hands III, hands of Candyfreak author, Steve Almond, signing a copy of his latest book, (Not That You Asked) Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions, Minneapolis Central Library, downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 2007, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
It’s late and I’m tired. But I wanted to write a short note. I just got home [...]
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Posted in Books, Culture, Death, I Don't Remember, Life, Maps, Photography, Place, Practice, Reading, Structure, Wake Up, Writers, Writing, tagged Hennepin Avenue, independent bookstores, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Orr Books, Reading, Uptown, Writers, Writing on October 7, 2007 | 11 Comments »
3043 - What’s Left Behind, inside what used to be Orr Books, Hennepin Avenue, Uptown, Minneapolis, Minnesota, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
While walking to dinner in Uptown a few weeks ago, I snapped a few photos of the shadowy insides of 3043 Hennepin Avenue, last location of the (almost) 40-year-old Orr Books.
The [...]
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Posted in Authors, Bones, Books, Creative Nonfiction, Dreams, Family, Gratitude, Great Places To Write, Home, Photography, Place, Practice, Structure, Vision, Wake Up, Writers, Writing, tagged interviews, Natalie Goldberg, Writers, Writing, Writing Down The Bones, writing practice, Zen on October 3, 2007 | 36 Comments »
After listening to Natalie Goldberg’s new interview on ThoughtCast, ybonesy and I wanted to pass the information along to our readers. But we first wanted to take a moment to reiterate our gratitude for the teachings that Natalie has passed down to us. Our vision for red Ravine was born out of our writing practice [...]
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Posted in Art, Authors, Bones, Books, Dreams, Gratitude, Great Places To Write, On the Road, Photography, Place, Practice, Structure, Taos, Writers, Writing, tagged artists, Diebenkorn, Harwood Museum of Art, mentors, Natalie Goldberg, New Mexico, painters, painting on September 25, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Diebenkorn In New Mexico, Taos Mountain in the background, Taos, New Mexico, July 2007, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
When I was in Taos in July, we carpooled over to the Harwood Museum of Art to see Diebenkorn In New Mexico. When I was looking through my Taos photos last night, I realized [...]
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Posted in Authors, Bones, Books, Creative Nonfiction, Family, Fiction, Life, Practice, Structure, Vision, Work, Writers, Writing, tagged red Ravine interviews, Robert Wilder, Tales From The Teachers' Lounge, the practice of writing, the process of writing on September 21, 2007 | 23 Comments »
Images provided by Anna Crowe, Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Random
House, Inc.; Cover Art © 2007 by Jose Luis Pelaez, Inc./Picturequest; Cover
Design by Lynn Andreozzi. Photo of author Robert Wilder © 2007 by Jennifer
Esperanza. All rights reserved.
On Thursday, September 13, QuoinMonkey and ybonesy interviewed Robert Wilder, author of the recently [...]
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Posted in Authors, Bones, Books, Creative Nonfiction, Family, Life, Practice, Structure, Vision, Work, Writers, Writing, tagged red Ravine interviews, Robert Wilder, Tales From The Teachers' Lounge, the practice of writing, the process of writing on September 19, 2007 | 27 Comments »
Image provided by Anna Crowe, Bantam Dell
Publishing Group, Random House, Inc.; Cover Art
© 2007 by Jose Luis Pelaez, Inc./Picturequest;
Cover Design by Lynn Andreozzi. All rights reserved.
On Thursday, September 13, QuoinMonkey and ybonesy interviewed Robert Wilder, author of the recently released Tales from the Teachers’ Lounge.
The interview was so rich, [...]
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Posted in Art, Authors, Books, Culture, Dreams, Fiction, Gratitude, Great Places To Write, Memoir, Photography, Place, Random, Structure, Writers, Writing, tagged F Scott Fitzgerald, famous writers, Fitzgerald Theater, Minnesota, St Paul, vintage on September 16, 2007 | 14 Comments »
The Fitzgerald, St. Paul, Minnesota, April 2007, photo © 2007
by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Last April, I went to see Galway Kinnell at the Fitzgerald Theater in downtown St. Paul. As my friend and I left the theater after a magnificent night of interviews and poetry, I turned and snapped this shot.
I am fortunate to live [...]
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Posted in Art, Authors, Body, Bones, Books, Home, Life, Nature, Personal, Photography, Place, Poetry, Random, Structure, Writers, Writing, tagged Delights & Shadows, Poetry, Ted Kooser on September 9, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Beach Grass In Winter, walking along Park Point Beach on Lake Superior, near Canal Park, Duluth, Minnesota, April 2007, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
It’s a beautiful Fall Sunday in Minnesota. I’m feeling reflective, pensive. Like the perennials on the deck that I need to transplant, my body is beginning to prepare for [...]
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Posted in Art, Authors, Bones, Books, Death, Dreams, Gratitude, Growing Older, Life In Letters, Love, Money, Obituaries & Epitaphs, Personal, Place, Politics, Random, Reading, Relationships, Structure, Vision, Wake Up, Writers, Writing, tagged Charlie Orr, closing Independent bookstores, history of Orr Books, independent bookstores, Natalie Goldberg, Orr Books, support Independent bookstores, Ted Kooser, Twin Cities Independent bookstores on September 7, 2007 | 37 Comments »
Ranked by local Twin Citians as 15th on a list of top independent bookstores in Minneapolis, Orr Books was one of my favorite independents. For almost 40 years, the tiny, quiet store resided in the largely urban Uptown section of Lake Street. The parking was terrible, but the staff was knowledgeable and friendly. And I could [...]
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Posted in 25 Things, Art, Authors, Books, Creative Nonfiction, Culture, Fiction, Film / TV / Video, Growing Older, I Don't Remember, Memoir, Money, Photography, Politics, Random, Reading, Spirituality, Writers, Writing, tagged 1960's bestsellers, 1960's history, American bestsellers, American history, how literature enriches life, literature, Minneapolis Central Library, the 1960's on August 30, 2007 | 29 Comments »
BookMark, Minneapolis Central Library, downtown Minneapolis, through the rain, August 2007, opened May 2006, architecture by the design team of Cesar Pelli & Associates, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Time for another decade of bestselling books. At the end of the 1960’s, gas was 39¢ a gallon, a 1962 Jaguar XKE would set [...]
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Posted in Bones, Books, Culture, Death, Family, Growing Older, Haiku, Home, Life, Love, Memoir, Nature, On the Road, Personal, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Topic Writing, Wake Up, Work, Writing, Writing Practices, tagged abandoned houses, Haiku, Memoir, memories, Poetry, writing about the past on August 17, 2007 | 31 Comments »
You Can’t Go Back, one of the homes I lived in as a child, now abandoned, June 2007, Augusta, Georgia, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
I spent two weeks on the road in June, researching my book. The second week was a road trip with my mother to Georgia, where I spent much [...]
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Posted in 25 Things, Authors, Bones, Books, Culture, Random, Reading, Structure, Wake Up, Writers, Writing, tagged Books, books as mentors, college prep, English teachers, literature, Mr. Schminda's Book List, teachers as mentors, Teri Blair on August 9, 2007 | 15 Comments »
In her post Thornton Wilder & Bridges, guest writer Teri Blair said this about Mr. Schminda, her former teacher:
Years ago, I was given a reading list by my 11th grade English teacher. I was in the college prep class, and the list of 100 or so books were ones he wanted us to read before [...]
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Posted in Authors, Bones, Books, Death, Essay, Holding My Breath, Jugular, Life, Personal, Place, Reading, Wake Up, Writers, tagged bridges, English teachers, funerals, how literature enriches life, Minneapolis bridge collapse, Mr. Schminda's Book List, Our Town, red Ravine Guests, Teri Blair, The Bridge Of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder on August 8, 2007 | 45 Comments »
by Teri Blair
Years ago, I was given a reading list by my 11th grade English teacher. I was in the college prep class, and the list of 100 or so books were ones he wanted us to read before we graduated from high school. It wasn’t just his idea. He told us a committee of [...]
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Posted in 25 Things, Authors, Books, Gratitude, Nature, Personal, Photography, Poetry, Practice, Spirituality, Structure, Vision, Wake Up, Writers, Writing, tagged book readings, Books, Mary Oliver, Poetry, Writers, Writing on July 31, 2007 | 32 Comments »
Part I:
It’s Tuesday evening. I’m not inspired. When I feel this way, I look to other writers and artists to pull me up. We’re all in this together. No need to compete. There is room for everyone. I’m a strong believer in abundance. I feel a spiritual obligation to pay it forward.
I’m thinking about last [...]
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Posted in Authors, Books, Culture, On the Road, Quotes, Random, Reading, Structure, Wake Up, Writers, Writing, tagged Books, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Reading on July 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Near the end of the evening, I felt like posting something. I looked at my book case and grabbed Kerouac’s On the Road. I’ve been wanting to read it for years. But there it sits, untouched. Occasionally, I pick the book up and roll the soft cover over in my hands, take my time running [...]
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Posted in Art, Books, Culture, Everyday Art, Money, Photography, Practice, Vehicles, Wake Up, Work, Writing on July 21, 2007 | 8 Comments »