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Category Archives: Performing
The week when “I was supposed to be at Lambda.”
This week, I was supposed to be at the Lambda Literary Foundation Writing Retreat in Los Angeles. I was supposed to be a “Lambda Fellow,” which holds a little prestige (at least in my mind) as one of just a … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Creative Nonfiction, Performing, Public Readings, Reading, Reading Out Loud, Solstice MFA Pine Manor College, Uncategorized, Writing, Writing Conferences, Writing Retreats
Tagged Bridget Bufford, Claudia Song, Colorado, Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, Creative writing, Essay, Faye Rapaport DesPres, Los Angeles, Pine Manor College, Solstice MFA Program of Pine Manor College, Writers Resources
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Publishing Failure and She Was Just Seventeen
I’ve been feeling like a failure lately because my essay, “Claudia Songs,” has been rejected so many times. I log onto Facebook and see so many of my writer friends publishing, some often, some sporadically, but they are publishing. I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Caring for parents, Getting Older, Idiots, Performing, The Beatles, Uncategorized, Writing, Writing Conferences, Writing Retreats
Tagged Catskill Mountains, Facebook, Justin Bieber, Lifebridge Sanctuary, Literature, Monologue, Monologue Performance, New York City, Performance, Plax, plax mouthwash, Publishing, Rite Aid, Sunday, T.M.I. Too Much Information, The Beatles, Walgreens, writer friends, Writing
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Woodstock Part II – Dorito in a Dish
At the Woodstock Writers’ Festival this past weekend, I participated in a workshop on “page to stage,” led by two of the founding members of T.M.I. (Too Much Information) out of New York. This is a group of three women … Continue reading
Posted in art, lesbianism, Performing, Reading, Reading Out Loud, Uncategorized, Writing, Writing Retreats
Tagged Boston, Catskill Mountains, Dorito, Friday, Monologue Performance, Mother, New York, NY, T.M.I. Too Much Information, Taco Bell, Woodstock, YouTube
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Gifts That Are Hard to Take: Trip to Woodstock, Part I.
It’s a new week. Time for one of those I’m-turning-50-gifts that I’m giving to myself in April. This gift comes in the form of a new challenge – to drive 200+ miles to New York to participate in a page … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Nonfiction, Overcoming Fear, Panic Disorder, Performing, Public Readings, Reading, Reading Out Loud, Travel, Writing, Writing Conferences, Writing Retreats
Tagged Anxiety, Bennington College, Catskill Mountains, Home, Kidney infection, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Turnpike, Monologue Performance, New York, New York City, Page to Stage, Peeing, Pit stop, Turning 50, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, Writing
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Moments Fine and Not So Much
Oh, that first morning after the sex, as she wakes me up and says, “I was disappointed.” Okay, that was not one of the finer moments of my life, but one of the marvels of writing is how you can … Continue reading
Posted in Agoraphobia, Facebook, Panic Disorder, Performing, Public Readings, Reading, Reading Out Loud, Solstice MFA Pine Manor College, Uncategorized, Writing, Writing Conferences, Writing Retreats
Tagged Association of Writers & Writing Programs, Chestnut Hill Massachusetts, Chicago, Mary Poppins, meg kearney, MFA, mfa program, Pine Manor College, Reading, Solstice MFA
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