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- How to Complete A NovelToday
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There should be a question mark at the end of that blog post title. I am not certain I know how to complete a novel, but I wish I did. I am coming up on the final, last, absolute hard deadline next week--when my manuscript is due to my editor. I think I am about 100 words away from finishing a revised last chapter. Then I will share this draft with a few trusted readers for comments in the next couple of days. Then well, I guess I'll panic some more.
- On the Hidden and the KnownYesterday
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"The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something--because it is always before one's eyes." -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Obama and Biracial PrideNovember 29
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Check out this Chicago Tribune article about "biracial pride." I was most struck by this statement:
Like Obama, Melissa Harris-Lacewell, 35, a former professor of political science at the University of Chicago who now teaches at Princeton University, identifies herself as black, although her mother is white and her father is African-American. "I was raised to be a black woman with a white mother, like a tall person with a short mother," she says.
It's an interesting analogy but not a completely accurate one. I can't explain why in words. Thoughts?
- On ChildhoodNovember 28
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"So like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us." - Gaston Bachelard
- Thanksgiving Day GratitudeNovember 27
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This is the time of year I usually start a good old-fashioned game of Dysfunctional Family Bingo to get through the holidays sanely. But today I'm not feeling so stressed by the family gatherings (oh, to be sure there will be dysfunction, but I feel like I don't have to be anxious about it--it is what it is). And really I'm just feeling so thankful for my family, by birth and by marriage. I am thankful for my husband and friends. I am thankful for mostly being free from fear and being able to do what I love. I am thankful for my health and the good health for those I love. I am thankful for each new day, but in particular this one, this day, here, now.