This week, I was laboring over a chapter from my memoir and it was still not coming together, even though (or because) I’d been working on it for several weeks. I kept revising and reworking and revising again, and still the chapter fell short, the words now a diluted version of what I’d originally written. Finally, I loosened my grip, put the chapter aside and moved on to another scene. And sure enough, the troublesome chapter began to take shape. [Read more…] about The Art of Letting Go
Archives for November 2013
Quote of the Week for November 11
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” — Henry David Thoreau
Women in the Driver’s Seat
On October 26, more than 60 women in Saudi Arabia got behind the wheels of cars to protest the kingdom’s ban on women driving, despite the threats of arrest. In contrast, I’d just gotten back from performing my one-woman show, How To Draw A Nekkid Man, in Nashville, first at Amy Grant’s “A Tennessee Weekend,” and next at Vanderbilt University. Two women hired me to perform my show — one, a multi-Grammy winning singer/songwriter; the other, a PhD holding associate dean at a major university who teaches in the Gender Studies department. I was hired to tell my story of self-discovery — on a stage, in front of large groups of men and women — that deals with, among other things, women’s issues. In the meantime, Saudi Arabian women are risking jail time so they can finally DRIVE A CAR.
Quote of the Week for Oct. 28
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human can fight, and never stop fighting.” — e.e. cummings