I am a fan of TED talks and this evening I found Creative Morning Talks featuring Elle Luna. Here is the link. It’s 30 minutes and worth every second. http://creativemornings.com/talks/elle-luna/1 w.amazon.com/Crossroads-Should-Must-Follow-Passion/dp/0761184880/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 If you’d rather read the concept of “the crossroads” the above amazon link will take you to her book. Let me know what you […]
Verlyn Klinkenborg’s Book About Sentences
Verlyn Klinkenborg’s book, Several Short Sentences About Writing, has an unusual format. There is no Table of Contents and the sentences are arranged like a poem. The first page starts with a paragraph with no title. “Here, in short, is what I want to tell you. Know what each sentences says, What it doesn’t say, […]
E.L.Doctorow Quotes
E.L. Doctorow passed away last week Wednesday, July 22, 2015, at age 84. Doctorow was a heavy smoker and died of complications involving lung cancer. He was born in the Bronx on January 6, 1931. His parents were second-generation Americans of Russian Jewish extraction and named their son Edgar after Edgar Allen Poe. Doctorow wrote […]
A Quote About Travel
“The world is a book, And those who do not travel, Read only a page.” By Saint Augustine To me, reading a book is traveling. When I read Aegean Dream by Dario Ciriello, I felt as if I had gone to the Island of Skopelos. When something reminds me about the book, I can imagine […]
Machu Picchu Peru Discovered this Day in 1911
American historian Hiram Bingham discovered Machu Picchu, one of my favorite places on earth, on July 24, 1911. Its location was kept a secret for hundreds of years until Bingham searched for what was considered one of the “lost” cities of the Incas. https://www.History.com states: “Traveling on foot and by mule, Bingham and his team […]
Website and Blog
Time to Write Now will be down for a few days while my website master works on my site. I’m not sure when that will happen, but sometime between late next week and August 12th. A new look replaces the row of books and the green background. The blog’s name and link will be the […]
Writing Prompt
Now that summer is half over and school will begin in about a month, how have your children spent their free time? Our house is in a court with three families who have children under the age of 11. They’ve been playing basketball and baseball in the mornings and evenings. The afternoon is too hot. […]