On Travel Writing
As my regular readers may know, and has been mentioned in this newsletter, I am in Dublin, Ireland today with my good friend and traveling companion, M. My daughter brought me to D.C. last weekend so that M. and I can leave from his home on Wednesday night after I get done teaching my class at Northampton Community…
Tips to jumpstart creativity
Tip One: Allow yourself some brain-dead time If you’ve been stressed or in a rut, find something that doesn’t require effort to lean you toward creative productivity. I’m not talking about spending all day on the couch or sleeping until 2 p.m., but watch a favorite movie or one that mirrors the direction you hope to…
Bookstore Review: Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, Pa.
Voted the Publisher Weekly’s Bookstore of the Year Today Eva and I visited Midtown Scholar Bookstore in Harrisburg, Pa, the state capital. I am headed to Washington D.C. to meet my friend M with whom I will travel to Dublin later this week. Eva is technically delivering me to D.C. (even though I drove) and…
Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?
I don’t “doom scroll.” I got my first iPhone in 2009 to settle my anxiety. Everything I could need was in my pocket, accessible by a tiny computer known as the iPhone 3GS. I start my mornings and end my evenings by checking my email, studying dog training videos (as I am on the waiting…
Reflections on My Left Foot
I ended up reading Christy Brown’s My Left Foot this weekend. (The movie stars Daniel Day Lewis. I watched that also.) Christy, born in 1932 as a middle child in an Irish Catholic family of 22 children, had cerebral palsy. The only limb he could control was his left foot— and he even learned to paint (and had gallery shows)…
Night of the Swaying Grass
Tomorrow, The Night of Swaying Grass debuts. This memoir by R. Diskin Black features 63 poems that tell Black’s history, celebrates finding oneself, honors the heritage of New York City and explores topics from finding oneself to recognizing the AIDS crisis of the late 1980s. Black understands that life is hard but he also knows, and shares, the triumph as…
Upcoming Events at Parisian Phoenix Publishing
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Mouth Shut Head Down
Today, we release of Geraldine Donaher’s young adult novel, Mouth Shut Head Down. She has a launch party planned at Immaculata University on Saturday, January 31. For more information and to RSVP, visit Geraldine’s web site, geraldinedonaher.com. This book aims to teach teens and their families about coercive control in relationships and the signs of human trafficking. Sex trafficking of minors often begins…
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