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E.B. White & Winding the Clock

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Of late things have been hard. 

My heart is broken. Broken again, for the 3477th time this life.

"Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time," wrote E. B. White, to a despairing Mr. Nadeau. The actual first paragraph of White's letter said:

"As long as there is one upright man..."

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Of the season, and a milestone

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My latest on Medium Online is "The End of the Beginning: Eight of Sabin Howard's Doughboys Get Ready to Go Back to Europe." 

I wrote it to share--to celebrate--a milestone: Sabin and his stalwart team have finished principal sculpture on the first grouping of eleven figures from A Soldier's Journey. 

I'm so proud of our sculptors Sabin, Charlie, and "Raymond." They've worked with focus and dedication...

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Love and chaos in the time of the coronavirus

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The world is rife with panic and pandemic.

People are sick. People are dying. The COVID-19 respiratory illness is sweeping across the globe. No place will be spared.

Italy is quarantining. Have the Italians stopped their millennia-old practice of bussing on both sides of the face in greeting? 

I bet they have. Kissing is for the inviolate.

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Art and Representation

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Author Traci L. Slatton muses on art and representation, ely concerning Sabin Howard's Bust of Ceres sculpture.

My husband Sabin Howard can sculpt. Think Carpeaux, Canova, or Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Think Michelangelo. He says, "Art represents us. How do we want to be represented?" It's a fair question...

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The Gottman Institute: The Art & Science of Love

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Two days of extraordinary learning at the Gottman Institute workshop. The first day focused on building the ground of being of love through Drs. John and Julie Gottman's research-based techniques. The second day addressed conflict and techniques for repair after regrettable incidents.

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Factual Error in The New Yorker: Is this how fake news starts?

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Author Traci L. Slatton writes about how The New Yorker misquoted her husband sculptor Sabin Howard, creating a factual error. Dedicated to all the women whose ideas have been misattributed to a man and who were told to leave it be and not to rock the boat.

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Fragile

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I was keenly aware of the fragility and preciousness of life. Everything can change in a split-second.

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La Serenissima

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La Serenissima,It's true, I prefer the Florentine painters. The clarity and bright colors and sweet spirituality of Giotto, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Fra

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Method Writing

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My husband told me last night that I was "method writing." It's true that I write from the inside of a story and I am writing a dark novel set during WWII.

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Imperfect love, and impermanence

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Imperfect love. The other morning, a friend and neighbor died. Barbara was a lovely human being, a much-depended-upon wife, mother, sister, and friend.

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Channeling Miss Phryne Fisher

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I find myself hopelessly enamored of a certain saucy Aussie investigator. Her effervescent, inquisitive nature slay me. My girl crush is Miss Phryne Fisher.

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Clothes-hangers and the Other

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I've come to understand that it's never me who is being sketched, sculpted, photographed, written or sung about. It's the artist's own projections onto me.

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Why I write

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Why I write. Ultimately, the reason I write is, Because I have to. Because I can not imagine my life without my writing

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Pulling Teeth

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When I was about 10, some molars started growing in the back of my mouth, and my teeth started jamming up together.

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Self reflection

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Self reflection. My husband, missing me, asked for some pictures. I did my best, using a mirror. This is the only picture for the public; I got creative.

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Epistolary Fiction

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Epistolary Fiction. This is an old form of novel, the novel in documents, usually letters, that is morphing into blog letters-posts.

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Day 5: Letter to a friend

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Day 5: Letter to a friend. This morning I did a solid hour of yoga to make up for my excesses last night. Food, drink, and… Jean-Sven. He behaved himself

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Day 4: Letter to a friend

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Day 4: Letter to a friend. The light at this time of year stretches seductively far into the evening—at 9:30 or 10, a honeyed lucence falls on everything

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Day 3: Letter to a friend

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Day 3: Letter to a friend I hope you're receiving these notes, and they provoke a smile. Lord knows you seemed dour enough in our last few conversations

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Great New Reviews

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Great New Reviews. THE LOVE OF MY (OTHER) LIFE is on Netgalley, and a reviewer just finished a review. Midwest Book Review featured a review of COLD LIGHT

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Sexy

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Sexy. Some people have given me grief because I don't like 50 Shades of Silliness.

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Happy Valentine's Day

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Happy Valentine's Day. It's Valentine's Day, and thoughts go to the invitation of eros. Of this, Rumi speaks well: Out beyond ideas

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Dinner with Friends

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Dinner with Friends. Which makes it pleasurable that we've found another couple we both enjoy. I like them because they're smart, funny, and good-hearted.

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MADNESS: I bought a nook on eBay

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MADNESS: I bought a nook on eBay. To be able to read anything right away without walking the three blocks to my local Barnes & Noble will be a treat for me.

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Falling in Love

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Falling in Love. We ended up with a yellow lab puppy. His name is Gabriel and he makes us all laugh.

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The Prom

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The Prom. Last night my step-daughter and oldest daughter went to their prom. There were the usual concerns in the breathless anticipatory hours: dress...

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Captain Jack is back

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Captain Jack is back. Most notable is Torchwood. It's cool and hokey, odd and exciting, racy and decidedly un-Hollywood and compulsively watchable

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New Hampshire, messages and King George

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New Hampshire, messages and King George. I am a registered Democrat. That said, I have been, like so many people, disillusioned with the Democratic party.

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