Category Archives: The Writing Room

The art and craft of writing. Writing tips.

The Writing Room: Write About My Aging Mother? I Don’t Think So . . .

Ten reasons why I’m finding it impossible to write about my 92-year-old mother, even though she’s all I can think about right now . . . .

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The Writing Room: And My (Serious) Case of the Human Condition

Driving home the other day from just one of countless visits to my mom at the hospital, I had to ask myself , why aren’t I writing about her?

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A Case of the Human Condition: The Trouble With Daffodils

The trouble with daffodils is they have no subtext. They are all cheer and sparkle and optimism. They are avatars of perky. They get on my nerves.

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A Case of the Human Condition: How to Overmother a Twenty-Something

Christina hadn’t called. We had dropped her at the airport hours ago. The flight to Burbank takes only seventy minutes. She should be home by now. But Jon and I still hadn’t gotten the, “I’m home. The plane didn’t crash. My roommate remembered to pick me up, and we didn’t get mugged in the garage,” phone call.

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A Case of the Human Condition: Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder - But What If There’s No Beholder?

A flowering tree grows hidden in the canyon below our house. If no one sees it bloom, is it beautiful? Without a beholder, can there be beauty?

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