by Nancy Colasurdo | Aug 10, 2012 | Write Thinking
Just when I was wondering if the little darlings in my neighborhood are ever going back to school so we can bring down the decibel level of noise to a joyfully peaceful place on weekday mornings, The Universe sends this. It is an encounter I had with an 8-year-old boy...
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 | 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...
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...
