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Every time I happen across a children’s television program where adult actors are pretending to be children I am grateful that those of us who write for young people are permitted to appear in the...
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Some thirty years ago I read an article which stated with firm conviction that the peak of short story writers’ careers comes in their thirties, the peak of novelists’ careers in their forties. Since I...
View ArticleMingling Souls
Mingling Souls John Donne: “ . . . more than kisses, letters mingle souls.” D.J. Taylor: “It’s is difficult not to feel that when writers stopped sending old-fashioned, hand-written letters to each...
View ArticleOn Being an Old Lady
I love being an old lady. I love the gifts age brings every single day. This is what rising to an old-lady day looks like: I am first up, and I motion our two little dogs into action. They tumble down...
View ArticleGrooming Our Own Replacements
Norma Fox Mazer and I were good friends. We taught together at Vermont College of Fine Arts back when our MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults at VCFA was very new, when it was the only...
View ArticleIs Remembering Enough?
Every time I happen across a children’s television program where adult actors are pretending to be children I am grateful that those of us who write for young people are permitted to appear in the...
View ArticleThe Descending Side of the Bell Curve
Some thirty years ago I read an article which stated with firm conviction that the peak of short story writers’ careers comes in their thirties, the peak of novelists’ careers in their forties. Since I...
View ArticleMingling Souls
Mingling Souls John Donne: “ . . . more than kisses, letters mingle souls.” D.J. Taylor: “It’s is difficult not to feel that when writers stopped sending old-fashioned, hand-written letters to each...
View ArticleOn Being an Old Lady
I love being an old lady. I love the gifts age brings every single day. This is what rising to an old-lady day looks like: I am first up, and I motion our two little dogs into action. They tumble down...
View ArticleGrooming Our Own Replacements
Norma Fox Mazer and I were good friends. We taught together at Vermont College of Fine Arts back when our MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults at VCFA was very new, when it was the only...
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