Every time I have a conference with my older son’s teacher, we spend 15 minutes skirting around words like ‘challenge’ and ‘motivate’. What it takes me a quarter of an hour to illustrate by saying things like, “Yes, he is a bright boy but as his pushy mother I know he can do a lot…
Tag: fiction
What I Meant to Say Was
Each year, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art here in Denmark hosts a festival of literature (I love that: festival of literature), featuring an array of authors. Some are well known on a global scale, others known more for their Scandinavian-ness; poets, writers, essayists. Last year I stumbled upon a reading by Ian McEwan on a…
Every Day I Write The Book
My background is writing. It’s what I do. It is what I studied in school, it is how I soothe the demons, and though it is not how I identify myself to others, it is how I identify with myself. Adventures in parenting, observational skills and expat stories notwithstanding, one of the main reasons for…
Lost in a Good Book
I’m in a book rut, stuck in book blah-dom. Prose purgatory if you will. This is unusual for me. With the exception of hard-core sic-fi/fantasy, I usually can and will read anything you throw at me. Reading is my sole remaining vice, my escape, my can’t live without. While I am partial to fiction, I read…
Wine and Cheese (Doodles) 