This made my day… As many of you know, our daughter, Miranda, is near Nairobi, Kenya at Daraja Academy on a service learning trip with a group from her school, Marin Academy. Each student checked a 50 lb personal bag and a 50 lb bag of donations—almost one ton of donated items—including the bean bag… Continue reading News from Miranda in Kenya!
Month: June 2012
Trees make drafts come true
I’m grateful for generous friends with a well-appointed cabin in the woods of Nicasio where I hit the 5-8 mark a week ago today a gift of quiet so quiet I could hear myself write, stop mid sentence to nap, wake and pick up where I left off.
True Olympians 44 Years Later
It instantly became an iconic image: the two young black American athletes, John Carlos and Tommie Smith, standing shoeless on the victory platform for the medal ceremony at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, gloved fists raised in a black power salute as the Star Spangled Banner played, protesting apartheid and the racist practices of the… Continue reading True Olympians 44 Years Later
Update on The Writing
Revisions: slow and sure, that’s the name of the game at the moment. I have only two rejections under my belt so you know I have a ways to go yet. The second rejection came with helpful feedback, which I’m considering as I rewrite. Thought you might be interested in seeing three books that have… Continue reading Update on The Writing