Tearing Down Internal Walls

Tearing Down Internal Walls

When two things are touching, says my fourteen-year-old, the expert scientist, who is not quite an expert yet, by nature of his fourteen-year-oldness, they’re not really touching. Between skin on skin, folds of paper, words & silence, ink & white, between...

“How Do You Do It?”

Women are natural jugglers.  We are taught to multi-task; in fact, we are often told we are better at it than our male counterparts.  Of course we have heard the refrain, “you can have it all.”  As women writers, we steal time for our writing away from other pursuits,...

The Love Poem

I’ve been thinking seriously about love poems. What does that term mean? Is the idea of loss inherent in the DNA of a love poem? Is a love poem something transient? Like a novel you keep coming back to, does the meaning change depending on the stage of life of the...

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