Why would you do that to yourself? Why seek out happy couples – couples that seem happy to you at least – after a painful divorce? Not many of my friends understood. I was not…Continue Reading: The Happy-Couples-Cure for Heartbreak.
"Look over my shoulder"
You’re welcome to look over my shoulder! An unfiltered glimpse inside my writing process, my work, my life.
The Impostor’s School of Writing, part 2
Here I was, 21 years old, on a train ride from Paris to Munich where my father was dying in a huge hospital. I distracted myself by writing – the novel I had started on…Continue Reading: The Impostor’s School of Writing, part 2
The Impostor’s School of Writing – Part 1
I was 21 and living in Paris when I first started telling people that I was a writer. Until then I had never said it out loud. Somehow I had met a group of aspiring…Continue Reading: The Impostor’s School of Writing – Part 1
Train Writing.
I’ve always liked writing in trains…. Of course, back in Switzerland, the longest train ride I ever took was about three hours. Now I am on the Southwest Chief, Los Angeles to Chigago, 43 hours…Continue Reading: Train Writing.