Nearly every woman I know has told me about one or more times in which she was sexually assaulted, molested, threatened or raped, or they personally know someone who was sexually assaulted, molested, threatened or raped. I was molested as a child, most vividly by a stranger in Woolworth's in the 60s, and I am also a victim of date rape. I hesitated to tell anyone until recently, … [Read more...]
Meeting Readers at Books By the Banks
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become. -- Ursula K. Le Guin The best part of the Books by the Banks book festival at the Duke Energy Center in Cincinnati, Ohio was meeting so many engaging and interested readers! Engaged Readers Nearly every visitor … [Read more...]
What a writers’ retreat can do
At the Springfed Arts' First Annual Lost Lake Writers' Retreat, poet Jack Ridl helped me realize I'm wasting my time when I procrastinate when I could be writing. He shook his head and joked that, when it comes to poets, "Chemists think we're blowing off our lives while they're out creating a better toothpaste." Jack obviously feels writing is the better pursuit. That's why I … [Read more...]
What, Why, How: Shireen Jeejeebhoy
What: I write books. My brain injury made it possible because it took away my writing ability, my ability to see and write short stories. My writing returned after relearning, but it wasn't the same at all as before my injury. At first, I could write only non-fiction, and so I started a political blog to give my angst an outlet. Then in 2009, after months of a story building up inside me, … [Read more...]
Birthdays After You Lose a Child
I vividly remember the moment Derek was born. The doctor laid him across my chest and there he was, my first baby -- his round face like a pale moon, his eyes open and unblinking, his little body warm and wet, his heart beating against my bare skin. I won't ever forget his first smile, his first word (It was butterfly, and I have a witness), and his first steps in the wooded acre behind our … [Read more...]
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