Early Morning at the Kenyon College Cemetery
A Civil War grave One morning at Kenyon last week I got up early and left the house before sunrise to get in my photography fix amongst all that writing. My destination: the old and picturesque cemetery on the Kenyon College campus, right behind Storer/Brandi Recital Hall where our readings were held every evening. With all those old gravestones and the [...]
Art that Went Straight to My Heart: Ori Gersht at the Gund Gallery
Ori Gersht Exhibit at the Gund Gallery - It can't be a coincidence, can it,that the panels featuring trees are hung next to the grand window framing the trees of the Kenyon College Campus? Yesterday was serendipitous in more than one way (see "A Gift for a Fellow"). After the Kenyon Writers Workshop ended, I took myself on an Artist's Date and [...]
A Memoir Doesn’t Have to Be a Book
This is my life at Kenyon College right now - sunlight filtering throug the trees along the Middle Path, where we writers tread to meet for our various workshops. I just finished my last conference with participants of Rebecca McClanahan's Literary Nonfiction Workshop at the Kenyon Writers Workshop, and it seems I was able to help a few of them [...]
Create: Chainmaille Bracelets
The other day I picked up my son from his summer internship at Blue Buddha, one of the largest distributors of chainmaille supplies, which happens to be here in Chicago. Have you heard of chainmaille? I hadn't, until my son got into it, making his own wire jump rings to recreate those weaves with which the metal knitted shirts were made [...]
Two Friends Go to Starved Rock
LaSalle Canyon Wall, photo taken by my friend Barbara Schlund Starved Rock is one of my favorite places to hike, and when my friend Barbara was visiting, we stopped by there on a little trip we took. It had rained a lot the days before, so the hiking paths were frightfully muddy, but we weren't deterred and decided to at [...]
How a Master Commenter Does It
Today is guest blogger day at the Blogathon, and I am happy to be hosting William Kendall. Regular readers will recognize him as this blog's most steadfast commenter. His dedication to leave comments has astounded me, particularly since I know that he reads many more blogs than mine, so I decided to ask him whether he'd be willing to share how he [...]