by Nancy Colasurdo | Jul 27, 2012 | Write Thinking
Conversations (hard to call them interviews) with Nora Moran, director of the Dog Tags Program of Puppies Behind Bars, and Judson Shaver, president of Marymount Manhattan College led to a piece that intersects two special lives. Moran has turned her life around thanks...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Jul 25, 2012 | Write Thinking
My brother recommended a piece in a recent issue of The New Yorker. Said he thought of me when he read it — “THE HUNGER DIARIES: Life and Letters” by Mavis Gallant. At age 28, she left a job as a journalist in Montreal and went to Paris (1950). The...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Jul 25, 2012 | Write Thinking
For this one, I tried to pull out from all the ‘noise’ surrounding the awful movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado and just get to how it feels from a distance. And what we can do moving forward. Today’s Game Plan: We’ll Almost Never Know...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Jul 20, 2012 | Write Thinking
As most of the big and logical questions swirl around this whole Penn State scandal, I keep thinking of fringe ones. The ripple effects, so to speak, of one man’s serial abuse and the ensuing coverups. And I keep thinking of death and how it must be a mish-mash...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Jul 19, 2012 | Unfettered 50
A few days ago I wrote a blog post called Foggy to Clear that expressed some relief about turning a physical and emotional corner in the challenge that has been 2012. That night I realized that my work obligations had been met and that I could award myself a 24-hour...
