by Xianna Michaels | Mar 27, 2014 | Editorial
Month: March 2014 I began writing stories as soon as I could write. I wrote my first “book” when I was in first grade and home sick with the measles. It was fully illustrated with a pink cover and was entitled, “The Big Parade”. I still have it. I began writing poems...
by Xianna Michaels | Mar 27, 2014 | Editorial
fountain No. I do all my work with a fountain pen. The flow of pen-and-ink on the paper is an integral part of my creative process. I first discovered fountain pens when I was a little girl visiting my father’s law office in downtown Brooklyn. He would sometimes take...
by Xianna Michaels | 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...
by Xianna Michaels | 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...
by Xianna Michaels | 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...
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