The only education in

The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other world, the place of innocence, and linear expectations, where I thught grief was a simple, wrenching realm of sadness and longing that graduallu receded. What that definition left out was … Read more

The trouble with modern

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what’s been taught and what’s been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into depths of confusion you … Read more

Every person with whom

Every person with whom you interact is a part of the person you are becoming. Not a single interaction with a single person is left out of the process of your becoming. Many assume that only pleasing relationships have value, but that is not the case. Your awareness of an unwanted situation evokes from you … Read more

Each piece of dialogue

Each piece of dialogue MUST be \”something happening\”. . .The \”amusing\” for its OWN sake should above all be censored. . .The functional use of dialogue for the plot must be the first thing in the writer’s mind. Where functional usefulness cannot be established, dialogue must be left out. Elizabeth Bowen