SAME CITY, DIFFERENT STATE

 RIDGEFIELD- Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon

COMPULSION TO BE A WRITER

 

THANKSGIVING THOUGHTS

 

SAME CITY, DIFFERENT STATE

DAYTON- Idaho, Iowa, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon

STEVENSON- Maryland, Oregon, Virginia, Washington,  West Virginia

WORDS OF WISDOM

Thanksgiving, for me, is a time of reflection.

~Trish Regan, Journalist

TRAGIC HEROES AND HEROINES

I seem drawn to authors who experienced tragic lives. When I read their works and their biographies, I ask myself, how can someone so gifted be so self destructive?

Some of them had conflicted or troubled childhoods. Others experienced much loss (Edgar Allan Poe). Still others were so conflicted about themselves (Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath). I am amazed by the amount of work they put out. 

Would these authors be as famous as they were, if they suffered no tragedy and conflict? I'll never know. Perhaps this is where their genius is expressed. Some of the best writing is produced during troubled times. 

WORDS OF WISDOM

 

ORIGINALITY

 

TEA AND A BOOK

 

WORDS OF WISDOM

In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet using it from the heart of a crowd as opposed to individual performance is a conflicting thing. I do stand-alone, and yet it's not about being an individual or being ambitious.

~Arundhati Roy

A COMPLEX POET

 Sylvia Plath wrote some of the most poignant poetry,

 filled with metaphors, mythology, and conflicted feelings. 

SAME CITY, DIFFERENT STATE

NORMAL- Alabama, Illinois

SANDY- Oregon, Utah

POEM

 

WORDS OF WISDOM

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

~Virginia Woolf, Author (1882-1941) 

SAME CITY, DIFFERENT STATE

HUDSON- Kansas, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina

LEICESTER- Massachusetts, Vermont

NORMAL- Alabama, Illinois

BE THANKFUL

 Be thankful for everything.