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  • Claire Vorster commented on her article Angel Falls
    Thanks honey, I love to think of an ancient monastery filled with sunlight where all you can hear are whispers of Heaven.  I hope Heaven whispers to you this week x
  • You have kept Carolyn alive for us in your remembrance. Suicide leaves a hard grief to bear. The anniversary seems a precious  time to remember how much she brought to...
  • This topic you raise is important. I think that this emphasis on writing just reflects everything else about our society or the way we as individuals function: That we...
  • >>I don't know why "up" means "on" for a light switch<< Actually, there are good reasons for it. It's easier to notice that a switch is ON than OFF, and i...
  • My first book cover in 2008, for "Running with Stilettos," was the same photograph of my spike heels that I'd taken more than a year before when I first needed a signa...
  • When I was writing "The Woman in the Photograph" I had a consultant who looked over the next to final manuscript and used that phrase. Sometimes you have to kill your...
  • Here's an excerpt from T.S. Eliot's Burnt Norton -- I've always loved its wistfulness: Other echoes Inhabit the garden. Shall we follow? Quick, said the bird, find th...
  • I have a little bit of a different take on this. A good deal of the content of my book, The Truth About Whales, talks about the suicide of my son, Ben. I didn't change...
  • Last week, when the weather was nice here in Washington, DC, my favorite place to write was our small screened in porch in a comfortable, cushioned wicker chair.  The...
  • I seem to remember a commercial for a Kindle that has a "paper white" screen. It's made for reading in sunlight. But that's the only device I know of that addresses th...