I just finished reading Love and Ruin, by Paula McLain. McLain is the author of The Paris Wife — you might have read that one, about Hemingway’s first wife. (It’s a great book, too.) Love and Ruin is about his third wife, the writer and journalist Marty Gellhorn. The story is in Marty’s POV, organized… [Read More]
15 things I noticed on the train.
Small clusters of purple phlox. A crow perched on top of the telephone wires. Altocumulus clouds, dark grey in the centre, bright white around the edges. A steel bridge, a church steeple, and a man in an orange jacket standing in a parking lot. A yard full of white plastic water cisterns. Train tracks diverging… [Read More]
On being alone and being alone together.
Part 4 of 7 in my Diary of a Misfit Author series. Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. I like it when I let myself rattle around in my writing room all alone, like a witch-artiste, scribbling my mysterious findings, arranging my significant talismans on a makeshift windowsill altar — stones from the… [Read More]
Are we crazy? Maybe.
Photo credit: Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirrored Room – The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away, 2013. Wood, metal, glass mirrors, plastic, acrylic panel, rubber, LED lighting system, acrylic balls, and water, 287.7 × 415.3 × 415.3 cm. Courtesy of David Zwirner, N.Y. © Yayoi Kusama What if we stopped trying to get it right?… [Read More]
Four things that will trigger your imagination.
Never underestimate the power of a fresh perspective. When your body receives new sensory input, you create new thought patterns, ideas, and responses. Feeling something new — whether that’s walking to work a different way, sleeping at a friend’s house, or eating a jackfruit taco for the first time — can trigger your imagination. That’s… [Read More]
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