Continue reading “The Story That Made Me Cry”I remember the first time a friend’s parent asked where I lived and the way her brow furrowed in response to my answer. And the time another friend said I couldn’t go round for tea at her house again because her mum said I ‘lacked manners’.
Em Ledger
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When You Can’t Figure Out How to Proceed
During these summer months I have paused work on The Sea Pearl because 1) I was physically busier than normal, 2) a co-author and I resigned unexpectedly from another publication (a long story) and started scrambling for another venue, and 3) I had an ongoing family emergency.
Continue reading “When You Can’t Figure Out How to Proceed”Battling the Whirlpool
. . . the best way forward for all of us individually and together is to turn grief into resolve and continue the struggle to save this planet from randomness, carelessness, ugliness, wastefulness, and superficiality . . .
Stefanos Polyzoides, Dean, School of Architecture, University of Notre Dame, on the passing of Richard Driehaus
This isn’t the way we planned last week. The ride was smooth all the way, until we sailed straight into a whirlpool.
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