by Nancy Colasurdo | Oct 31, 2011 | Write Thinking
Just two days after my Game Plan column about luck went live on FoxBusiness.com, The New York Times ran a piece on the front page of the Sunday Business section called What’s Luck Got to Do with It? Essentially it’s a study-based version of my large...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Oct 30, 2011 | Write Thinking
Calling this a pet peeve is a little strong, but let’s say I find it very misguided when I feel I’ve accomplished something and someone tells me how lucky I am. Once I got going on the topic, I couldn’t stop. Friday’s Game Plan: Don’t...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Oct 26, 2011 | Write Thinking
There came a point in my work as a columnist writing about ‘how to live life’ that I realized I was attracting some really cool kindred spirits into my sphere to interview and spotlight. Deborah Hutchison of A Sane Approach is one of those. I let her...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Oct 25, 2011 | Write Thinking
When I was young, younger than I am now, I started to write about my own life and I came to see that this act saved my life. When I heard about my brother’s illness and his dying, I knew, instinctively, that to understand it, or to make an attempt at...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Oct 24, 2011 | Write Thinking
Very moved by my first exposure to Jamaica Kincaid. Reading My Brother for my Women Write Their Lives class at NYU (after Woolf and Ernaux) and what I find most impressive is that she got out of her native Antigua and found a better life here. What a will and a steely...
