I’m sitting on the toilet (pants up), laptop on lap, writing this post in the Ramada Inn in Charleston, West Virginia. My husband is asleep and has a cold, so I’m trying to keep things quiet. I was just at an event called the Festival of Inspiration. No internet access, no cell phone. I didn’t […]
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Katherine Russell Rich, author of the memoirs Dreaming in Hindi, and Red Devil: To Hell with Cancer and Back, died on April 3rd after an incredible 24-year battle with Stage IV breast cancer. I found out from Leah Hager Cohen’s blog. KRR had been told after the first recurrence that she had, at most, two […]
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I’ve been bad. I used a valid crisis as an excuse for not posting, not writing, and now all that I went through at the time seems oh-so-distant, almost—almost—inconsequential. But that’s also what writing does, it creates distance between what is experienced and what is told. And yet the whole point of writing is to […]
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