Biked the Drive
Cruising onto Lake Shore Drive at 57th Street at 5:45 a.m. My kids and I biked Lake Shore Drive back in May. It's taken me this long to report on our experience because I was hoping to share official photos. After all, we had the registration numbers properly affixed to our chests and helmets. Alas, our "bib numbers" did [...]
Reading: In Love with an Old Book – E.B. White’s One Man’s Meat
Once in a while we read a classic in my Advanced Memoir Workshop, and this June the group chose E.B. White's One Man's Meat. The book proved hard to get from the library (misplaced, borrowed, or in transit). When I looked earlier this year, Amazon only had a large-print edition, which I know I cannot read, so I decided to [...]
My Summer Non-List
The first day of summer has me thinking about my summer list. Faithful readers of this blog know that I like to put together a list for each season to make sure I actually savor it, and that it all began with that consistent American question of "Are you having a nice summer?" See my old post on having a [...]
Photo Essay: Tiger Hill, Suzhou, China
These days I am craving some serenity (Our kids' school year is over and the summer chaos of camps, summer school and entertainment has begun.), so I thought I'd put together a photo essay of the first garden I visited in Suzhou, a city of famed classic Chinese gardens, about 1.5 hours from Shanghai. King He Lu, who died [...]
Literary Magazine Layout
The past few days I've become obsessed with creating a book in blurb, as I am handling the layout of the literary magazine my son's school is publishing. It's been exciting and fun to make it work. As I've been planning pages, it's also been interesting to be on the "other" side of publishing. Even though I did not [...]
Guest Blog by Stephanie Springsteen: Writing in the Car or in Bed
Image by freepik As part of my current series on Moms Who Write, I am happy to welcome my longtime student Stephanie Springsteen. Her work has appeared in the anthology Cup of Comfort for Couples, and I think you will agree with me that she is most ingenious in fitting writing into her life as a mom: [...]