900th TED Talk: Sarah Kay’s “If I should have a daughter…” From the TED website: “Plenty of 14-year-old girls write poetry. But few hide under the bar of the famous Bowery Poetry Club in Manhattan’s East Village absorbing the talents of New York’s most exciting poets. Sarah Kay also had the guts to take its stage …
Head on over to Goodreads for a chance to win one of five free copies of the paperback edition of Oscar’s Gift! Then be sure to read author Rebecca Rasmussen’s touching guest post on Writing Up an Appetite. To be followed by an excellent piece by Di Mace on Write To Done: “Why Copying Inspires …
For anyone who… a. needs a refresher b. hasn’t seen the first seven movies or c. can’t get enough of Harry
Flash Narratives are a way to share my current work in progress, a book based on the Great Plains diaries of my great-aunt Hattie, which she kept from 1920-1957. For more background information on the project, go here. July 4, 1933: Glorious Fourth of July (“Take Care of the Farmer”)
Inspired by this past weekend’s New York Times article by Susan Cain, “Shyness: An Evolutionary Tactic“: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1pbzyskc10]