by Nancy Colasurdo | Feb 14, 2013 | Write Thinking
I am feeling refreshed and strong on this Valentine’s Day. My God, how happy I am to say that. I wrote last year’s Valentine’s Day post with my leg up, crutches by my side. When I reread that 2012 post yesterday, I got a good chuckle at where my mind...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Oct 6, 2012 | Write Thinking
Anyone who knows me or reads me regularly knows how much I enjoy The Writer’s Almanac (courtesy of Garrison Keillor) delivered to my mailbox each day. Big thanks to my friend Erin for introducing me a while back to this lovely nugget of daily history. Oftentimes...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Jun 24, 2012 | Unfettered 50
On many a day I give thanks for Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac, but every so often it speaks to me in an extra special way. This poem for me evokes the way I feel when I am sitting at the Hudson River waterfront, not among trees, but in a...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Nov 20, 2011 | Write Thinking
Recently while shopping with a friend, I picked up a welcome mat for my home that has big red poppies on it and makes me feel — as I wrote in a Facebook status update and Tweet — like I am being greeted each day in Georgia O’Keeffe fashion....
by Nancy Colasurdo | Nov 7, 2011 | Write Thinking
Some quotes from Albert Camus really resonated in The Writer’s Almanac newsletter today. From his speech when accepting the Nobel Prize in literature in 1957: I have not been able to learn of your decision without comparing its repercussions to what I really am....
