by Lori M. Myers, Senior Interview EditorSeveral years ago, writer Dinty W. Moore offered Sarah Einstein some good advice: Marriage is like writing, he said. You need to show up at your writing desk and at your marriage desk. There’s more to this, which Einstein writes about in her essay “What Therefore Dinty Has Joined…
I often tell people that if they want to discover what their book is really about, then they should design a cover…
My father was possessed by a trailer. … My Mom was obsessed with doing paint-by-numbers and would get trapped in magenta jungles for days …
Mid-summer and the rain approaches without much warning. The wind comes up first, sucks a bit of the humidity from the air, and cools things down.
I’ve never touched earth much. Water, yes. As a child, I unbuckled knee pads and thigh straps to lift legs out of their braces.
Okay; this might be shorter than expected, but I keep forgetting most of what I’ve learned…
Something solid and heavy struck the front of my Honda and slid up over the windshield, thumping and scratching as it slid along the top of the car.
You woke up gasping for air… When the pain starts at 3:30 a.m., you suddenly remember your family medical history…
I am going through your things, Dad, and there is the black and white Kodak picture with the curly edges, me on Thunder…
When I try to remember Daddy, who died prematurely from lung cancer…it’s difficult. … What I do remember is just missing him all the time.
