And now another selection from Kristen’s Little Shop of Metaphors… I told Husband recently about Anne Lamott’s metaphor (suggesting that writers carve out space to write just like woodpeckers drill holes in trees to make their nests) and the post I wrote about it. His response? “Don’t woodpeckers peck to pick grubs out of trees?” [...]
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“My therapist, Rita, has convinced me that every time I say yes when I mean no, I am abandoning myself, and I end up feeling used or resentful or frantic. But when I say no when I mean no, it’s so sane and healthy that it creates a little glade around me in which I [...]
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In this week’s edition of Six Quick Picks, I offer up a list of the best books I read in 2009. I hope you’ll join in the conversation and offer me and the Motherese community the names of some of your recent literary finds. 1. Home, by Marilynne Robinson (2008): Robinson won the 2005 Pulitzer [...]
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During my recent Holiday Hiatus, I took a break from daily writing. I fired off a few trifling posts, set up Blogger to post one each morning, and then closed my laptop, giving it two weeks of true hibernation. Up to that point, I had made time every day since launching Motherese to sit down [...]
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