A version of this post was originally published on September 16, 2007. A friend, Gaby, had asked me to answer her questions about writing and creativity, and I was responding
Originally published in June 2010. A while back, we attended an open rehearsal of my daughter’s middle school string orchestra. They were preparing for a festival at the time, and
This post was originally published in September 2006. Mostly for my own reference, I’m putting down some (to me) significant quotes from other essays in the C.S. Lewis book. “The
This post was originally published in August 2006 and contains spoilers for “The Life of Pi.” I’m a great believer in synchronicity, or meaningful coincidence, so I don’t believe it
After yesterday’s post about writer’s block, I thought I would share this old one of mine, which captures the early phase of my creative drought so well. It got much