by minervarising | Jul 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
I have a pain in my neck. I mean a real pain in my neck, like the kind Mary Shelley must have been having when she envisioned the character of Frankenstein; his head being held on with a bolt that went clean through from one side to the other. Sometimes, it keeps me...
by Kim Brown | Jul 9, 2012 | Blog, Staff Blog
“Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop—an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Jul 2, 2012 | Blog
Church was the weirdest thing in the world when I was a kid. We went – my sister, my brother, my mother and father and me – to a very wooden congregational church in New Rye, NH. Women wore dresses and gloves and men wore dark suits and white shirts and...
by Kim Brown | Jun 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
I haven’t been able to write for the last five days. There was so much crap on and around my desk that even the thought of organizing all the papers and mail made my head hurt. And to make matters worse, everything on my desk needed my immediate attention. (There’s an...
by minervarising | Jun 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
I declared a writing retreat for myself this weekend. A conspiracy of seemingly unrelated events was to leave me home alone from Saturday morning to Sunday evening and I had little choice but to make good on my blah blah blah for why my writing over the past few...
by minervarising | Jun 11, 2012 | Uncategorized
I know the theme for this first segment of “The Keeping Room” is beginnings. But honestly, I don’t know how to talk about beginnings, at my age, without talking about endings; new makes me think about used and young makes me think about old. Beginnings don’t happen...
by Kim Brown | Jun 4, 2012 | Blog, Staff Blog
Writing this blog was hard. I didn’t really have time, because I’m on a Midwest college tour with my sixteen-year-old daughter. We drove 12 hours from Georgia to Michigan. We spent four days in Michigan touring The University of Michigan and visiting family....
by dgracestaley | May 28, 2012 | Blog
It’s that time of year, when goings happen. There are so many graduations with young people moving onto the next chapter of their lives. Several friends are moving—Dulcie just moved into a new house, my best friend, Janene, is moving from Tennessee to Texas, and...
by minervarising | May 21, 2012 | Uncategorized
I seem to be in a very emotional way as of late. An old man riding off in the passenger seat of his daughter’s car, baby ducks tumbling down the grassy slope into the pond, a Mother’s Day card from two years ago, the ache in my back – all of these things cause an...
by minervarising | May 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
On a recent trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, I saw this sculpture and was taken aback by the sense of anguish. It mirrored the strain I sometimes feel when dealing with my responsibilities. Sometimes burden is so heavy that I actually feel...
