When and where do you work? How many hours a day?

by | Mar 27, 2014 | Editorial

Editorial I try to spend as many hours a day at my desk and drawing board as possible; it is where I am most centered in my deepest self. I work every day except the Sabbath, and left to my own devices would spend most of my waking hours writing and drawing. But I am...

I Didn’t Know I was a Writer

by | Mar 27, 2014 | Editorial

Editorial When I was in my late 20’s, I was teaching English and Spanish in a private religious high school. I absolutely loved the work – and my students – but there had been some administrative changes in the school and I felt that I had to leave. I had several...

Why Fountain Pens?

by | Mar 27, 2014 | Editorial

fountain pen My life-long love affair with fountain pens began in my father’s law office in downtown Brooklyn. When I was a little girl, he would sometimes take me to work with him in the summer. Everyone there was enamored of the new “ball-point” pens. But I would...

Where do your story ideas come from?

by | Mar 27, 2014 | Editorial

Month: March 2014 Everywhere and anywhere. A quotation from the Bible, a news report that makes me wonder “What if – 7 centuries back;” or perhaps a line or two of poetry – the beginning of a story – will pop into my head and I’ll think, “Oh! Where did you come from?...