2016-06-222021-10-29

Learning from a confidence crash: Reflections from a writing retreat.

I started this blog as a way to keep myself writing. It was the same kind of desperate attempt to build good habits that causes people to talk their significants ... Read more

2016-05-302021-10-29

Review: Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric

Book Reviews!

Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine My rating: 4 of 5 stars My book group picked Citizen for the month of May. One unusually sunny ... Read more

2016-05-152021-12-29

A book of my poems? Why, yes, it is.

Poetry

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Red Dress Press publishes first author-designed book. Linger, Love. by Liz Shine is a collection of poems written and edited over twenty years. Placed together in this ... Read more

2016-04-192021-10-29

Review: An Atlas of the Difficult World

On writing

An Atlas of the Difficult World by Adrienne Rich My rating: 5 of 5 stars An Atlas of the Difficult World delivers, as Rich’s collections always do. Reading her work ... Read more

2016-04-092021-10-29

Review: The God of Small Things

Uncategorized

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy My rating: 5 of 5 stars If I’d pick up this book at the right time (less busy), I might have finished ... Read more

2016-03-222021-10-29

Monday, a run through the driving rain, hail, a sweet reminder.

Be here now., Goals, Inspiration, Movement

I started running at twenty four. I could not even run a mile before I started to wheeze. But, within two years, I was up to five miles five to ... Read more

2016-03-062021-10-29

I grow old… I grow old…

Memoir

How can 42 be the answer to the ultimate question regarding life, the universe, and everything when it’s so damn old? Seriously, my face has actually begun to slide away ... Read more

2016-02-162021-10-29

Post-Valentine Reflection: Plans and Vampires

Memoir

I’m not entirely sure where I’m headed in this blog, though I do know there’s something I want to say, something that feels urgent. I’ll do what I do in ... Read more

2016-02-152021-10-29

One true sentence? Considering Hemingway.

A Room Of Your Own, On writing

My seniors are reading Hemingway, so, of course, I am rereading him too. And thinking about him and his oft-quoted advice to writers. Just one true sentence? The truest sentence ... Read more

2016-02-022021-10-29

Where we embrace determinism

On writing

In some aspects of popular psychology, we doggedly embrace free will. Those who are not happy are choosing that state of mind. And happiness is the new American Dream. We ... Read more