by Nancy Colasurdo | Aug 8, 2012 | Write Thinking
Most times if I attend an event or see a film or experience something cultural, it falls under the category of Game Plan column or blog post. There’s rarely crossover. For a number of reasons, the Yayoi Kusama exhibit at the Whitney last week has inspired both....
by Nancy Colasurdo | Aug 3, 2012 | Unfettered 50
Back in 1998 when I still lived in a Central New Jersey suburb, but a year or so after completing a Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan, I spent a vacation week in Manhattan at the West Village apartment of my friend Christina (also a UMich...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Aug 3, 2012 | Write Thinking
Sometimes there are ideas floating around in my head and all it takes is one push from something, somewhere, to rein them all in to form a thoughtful column. This one became concrete the minute I saw an obit in The New York Times recently. Today’s Game Plan:...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Aug 1, 2012 | Write Thinking
Probably one of the things I loved best about being a sports writer through the late 80s and most of the 90s was covering girls’ and women’s soccer. Watching it in person is so heady sometimes. I marveled regularly at what those athletes could do. But...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Jul 29, 2012 | Write Thinking
The writers we admire most are propelled by a mixture of innocence and chutzpah — the nerve to write big coupled with a childlike need to cultivate the virtues they have always believed in. They may surprise themselves by the insistence of their own higher...
