Monthly Archives: May 2013

Every so often, I bump up against an experience, or a news story, or a detail out of history, or maybe a song, an image, or a snatch of conversation that reminds me of why literature matters, why it’s so important to write stories–the ones that seem small for being about ordinary people, but that speak the full, and ever universal, range of human truth.

Here are some recently published images that recall what my character Mabel in The Sisters might have seen emerging in her darkroom in an earlier time–a time of another protracted war:

http://www.upworthy.com/mesmerizing-photographs-of-soldiers-faces-before-and-after-a-war?c=ufb1

As of today, my school year is over, and at long last my house is in reasonably livable order.  Most important, though, is my home office, now cleared of excess furniture, unpacked boxes, and unsorted files–in short, ready for what I hope is good thinking and better writing!