“The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.” – Byron Katie “The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.” – Oscar Wilde Jill, the protagonist in my novel, Norman in the Picture, lives by the above quote. It’s […]
What Did You Do New Years Day?
What did you do on this auspicious first day of 2015? As you can see, I was floating under the Golden Gate Bridge…in a boat, of course. A friend of ours bought a 35 foot motor boat recently and he invited us to join him, his girlfriend, and his experienced sailor friend for the first […]
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to all my family, friends, fellow writers and bloggers. Wishing everyone excellent health, joy, love, and success.
Rhetorical Devices Anastrophe and Antanaclasis
Anastrophe is the deliberate changing of normal word order for emphasis. For example: “Enter the forest primeval.” “On a black cloak sparkle the stars.” “Bright he was not.” Antanaclasis is when the same word is repeated but with a different sense each time. Antanaclasis creates comic effect when used in the form of irony and […]
Musician Sam Baker
Terry Gross from Fresh Air on NPR broadcasted her interview with musician Sam Baker this last week. He didn’t start writing music until after he came close to death in 1986 on a train in Peru traveling to Machu Picchu. Since I’ve been on that train in 2000 and 2002, I stopped my car to […]
Quotes for Writers
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. -E.L. Doctorow Hear the meaning within the word. –William Shakespeare Realize that everything connects to everything else. ― Leonardo da Vinci
Cooking
In Recipes and Recollections of My Greek-American Family, Elaine Manolakas Schmitz shares her family’s traditional recipes and tales. It’s a beautiful book with color photos and high quality paper. She tells about two families who migrated from villages in Greece to Greektown Detroit, Michigan. “As they settled, mingled, and grew, they maintained their culture, customs, […]