On Writing

Reflections on work and craft...

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⁠ Keillor on writing ⁠Mar 8, 2023⁠ ⁠ “I'm a writer and writing is drudgery, not so different from cleaning hotel rooms. All writing is rewriting and it's never finished. No writer reads his own work with pleasure.” This link can't be embedded.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ A New Gig ⁠Sep 24, 2022⁠ ⁠ This month, I’ve begun working part-time at my local weekly newspaper, the Island Ad-Vantages⁠ , a publication with a hundred-year history of reporting on the tidal forces of lives lived on Deer Isle, in Penobscot Bay. And while I never expected to return to the workforce... Read more⁠ ⁠ ⁠ New England Summer Camps ⁠Apr 9, 2022⁠ ⁠ Although the print magazine has been out for almost a month, my feature on how three New England summer camps are expanding access to a more diverse range of kids is now online. To report on “Widening the Circle⁠ ,” I spent some glorious summer days at Buck Lake Camp in... Read more⁠ ⁠ ⁠ The impact of COVID-19 on healthcare ⁠Dec 2, 2021⁠ ⁠ The Portland Press Herald published my letter⁠ today on the need to reassess our strategy – if you can call it that – for living with COVID-19. The letter was responding to the paper’s editorial⁠ on Nov. 30, which argued that the appearance of the omicron variant may ... Read more⁠ ⁠

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