The meaning of “friend”

January 7, 2013

This column of mine appeared in the January 2013 issue of Mankato Magazine: My husband, David, likes to tell the …

January 4, 2013

Originally posted on The Brevity Blog:
Susan Shapiro, on the NY Times Opinionator Blog, offers an excellent take on an issue that…

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January 3, 2013

My memoir, WE’LL BE THE LAST ONES TO LET YOU DOWN, is now a Goodreads giveaway! You can enter until …

January 2, 2013

I thought this story from the Washington Post was brilliant. In times of national grief and sorrow, we can find …

December 30, 2012

The Minneapolis StarTribune named Joan Soranno, the architect who designed the new mausoleum at Lakewood Cemetery, the 2012 Artist of …

December 30, 2012

Originally posted on The Brevity Blog:
Here at Brevity, we adore straight talk, honesty, shrimp and grits, and common sense. One of…

December 27, 2012

Read this description of Tracy Lee Karner’s new memoir and tell me it doesn’t sound intriguing 🙂 From Amazon.com: “After …

December 26, 2012

I’m reviewing my reading list from 2012 and it’s fairly pathetic. I don’t think there’s ever been a year where …

December 20, 2012

Other thoughts regarding Newtown: How many parents brought their children to the wake(s) of their classmates? I was eight years …

December 19, 2012

After simply just trying to process what happened in Newtown, CT (which cannot be processed–you only can try), after reading …