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 18, 2012 | Write Thinking
This one is pretty self-explanatory. Last week I was picking up a book for a friend’s child and wound up deep in conversation with the guy selling me the book. I had seen Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love a few days before, a little escape to New...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Jul 13, 2012 | Write Thinking
So often we run into situations where we think the grass is greener or people think our grass is greener and project it all over us. Decided to drill down on that a bit this week and it brought to mind an encounter with a former life coaching client. Today’s...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Jul 13, 2012 | Write Thinking
Love this writer tidbit from Lucas Kavner’s Huffington Post interview of Tim Kreider, whose excellent New York Times piece called “The Busy Trap” went crazy viral last week: Whether he’s examining a complicated, frustrating relationship with a...
