by Nancy Colasurdo | Oct 20, 2010 | Write Thinking
Last week a friend asked me if I was considering writing a Game Plan column ‘life coaching’ Chilean miner No. 21. I pondered the idea, but then realized I would advise him to take a stand — wife or mistress — and by the time he emerged from...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Oct 16, 2010 | Write Thinking
Thanks to The Writer’s Almanac by Garrison Keillor for this one today. Love it. The Thing Is by Ellen Bass to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Oct 15, 2010 | Write Thinking
When authors send along their books hoping to get a mention in my Game Plan column, it can be a crapshoot. Sometimes it’s obvious that a book would make an interesting column. Sometimes I need a “peg” to hang it on. After reading Me 2.0 by Dan...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Oct 13, 2010 | Write Thinking
Here’s one of the truly great things about living where I live, essentially a 10-minute subway ride into Manhattan. When I see an ad in The New York Times on a Sunday morning telling me there’s an exhibit of John Lennon’s artwork in SoHo, I can be...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Oct 11, 2010 | Write Thinking
Meaningful gifts really touch me and so this evening I am particularly gratified. Yesterday a friend gave me an olive wood Jerusalem cross from her recent trip to the Holy Land. I decided to read more about its design, four smaller crosses on one big cross. According...