The Post-Residency Interview
It's nice when you poke about cyberspace in the evening, too tired to do anything productive, but not quite ready for bed yet, and discover something neat and life-affirming, [...]
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Feb, 2016
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Dec, 2015
The Best of the Hemingway House 2015
Doing what I loved to do during my residency at the Hemingway Birthplace Home—poking about, taking pictures; here, in “Abba’s room,” i.e. the room of Ernest Hall, Hemingway’s maternal grandfather, [...]
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Jul, 2015
Farewell, Hemingway House!
My year as writer-in-residence at the Hemingway Birthplace Home in Oak Park has come to an end and as I say farewell to my studio in the attic, I treat [...]
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Jul, 2015
Two Turrets: My Grandfather’s and Hemingway’s
Turret of the Hemingway Birthplace Home in Oak Park, Illinois Turret of my grandfather's former apartment in Liberec, Czech Republic The Hemingway Birthplace Home in Oak Park, Illinois has a [...]
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Jul, 2015
The Way to Work
My days as the writer-in-residence at the Hemingway House in Oak Park are drawing to a close, and so I decided to document my drive there. I have come to [...]
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May, 2015
A Picnic in Hemingway’s Attic
What could be more perfect than a bunch of writer friends holding a picnic in the attic of the Hemingway Birthplace Home? Where the gabled windows look out at [...]
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Jan, 2015
Mini Memoir Workshop @ Hemingway House
I'll be teaching a Mini Memoir Workshop at the Hemingway Birthplace Home as part of my gig as writer-in-residence. It will be a series of four evening classes in February [...]
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Dec, 2014
Christmas Greetings from the Hemingway Birthplace Home
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate today and tomorrow! This is my current view when I come down the stairs from my studio in the attic of the Hemingway Birthplace [...]
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Oct, 2014
3rd/4th Graders Visit the Hemingway House
I know it's been all about the Hemingway House here lately, but I'm simply having too much fun with it. This week three 3rd/4th grade classes came to visit, and [...]
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Oct, 2014
Hemingway Birthplace Home Video Tour
For my students who missed class at the Hemingway House and all my blog readers, here's a little video tour of my writer-in-residence studio in the attic, the attic itself, [...]
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Oct, 2014
Holding Class at the Hemingway House
My Advanced Memoir Workshop meets in the dining room of the Hemingway Birthplace Home. What a cool occasion to take a group selfie! Yesterday my Advanced Memoir workshop, usually held [...]
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Sep, 2014
Poking about Hemingway’s Attic
Every time I'm at my writer-in-residence studio at the Hemingway House, I poke about the attic. I feel like it's my foyer, my grand foyer, actually, as it is so [...]
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Aug, 2014
Goldilocks at the Hemingway House
My studio in the attic used to be a maid's room but is now furnished by Thomasville of Oakbrook, featuring their safari-style Hemingway Collection of furniture and décor. I have to say I'm [...]
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Jul, 2014
Writer-in-Residence at the Hemingway Foundation
My big news since returning from Tel Aviv: I will be the 2014-15 writer-in-residence at the Hemingway Foundation! This entails having a studio up under the roof of Hemingway's birthplace home [...]