Category: reflection
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The revolution will not be microwaved
“Hey, Dad,” a certain teenager said. “Can you come with my to the college library this weekend?” “Why your Dad?” Mom asked. “I love the library.” They went to look up photography book’s for the teenager’s digital photography class. She needed portraits, so she could select a portrait she liked…
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Sometimes you can be silly
People often come in and out of other people’s lives. Good friendships can be fluid, picking up where they left off or drifting apart only to reconnect later. Good friendships can form over mistakes, and my connection with Darnell Davis, the co-founder of ASPIRE to Autonomy and host of the…
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Disability Poetics
Parisian Phoenix editor Nancy Scott and I have worked together now for probably a decade. She thought I might know someone who could help her manage her writing career, and I told her I’d just do it, and she protested that I probably had better things to do with my…
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The evening of Under 1,000 Suns
As one of the publishers involved in the Fifth Annual Easton Book Festival, I spend much of the event chaperoning my authors and doing what I need to do as I’ve been asked to do it. This year, I’m making more of an effort to attend more events that I’m…
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Reflections on Writing (and the Easton Book Festival 2023)
It’s cold. At least, for the moment, it’s not damp. I’m struggling with the idea of productivity, balancing the projects I feel like doing with the ones that might seem more important. Harass local media about the upcoming book festival or add more author pages to my web site? Fix…
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Book clubs and beers
I have a lot on my plate these days– as a publisher, as an editor, as an unemployed person and a mom. I try to live my life with honesty and transparency because we, as American citizens, hide too many of our struggles and our fears. Being a creative person…
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Food, Academia and Television
Since I’m unemployed, I decided to join my local public library’s book club. The adult services librarian sent me the book list, and I ordered The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton from The Parisian Phoenix Storefront at Bookshop.org. The next meeting is at 2 p.m. on October…
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Thoughts on Disability as DEI
I mentioned in a previous post that we did not reach the finals of the Independent Book Publisher Association’s Innovative Voices Fellowship. The finalists included I believe 20 different publishers, all with either BIPOC or LGTBQIA+ voices. No one among them had a disability. The five winners were announced, and…
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