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Why Museums Matter

I went to a museum yesterday. Last year, I went to so many museums that I lost track, haunting special archival collections to ferret out

Back in early March, before it felt like we were trapped in a lousy cinematic mashup of Chernobyl, Contagion, and Zombieland, I was on a writing

From the moment I first declared myself a novelist in my twenties, there were doubters. My father, for starters. “You'll never make a living. Why

One recent rainy Sunday afternoon, I joined other members of the Newburyport Writers group to soak up the wisdom of Boston-based bestselling author

I'm a new runner, as in, I ran my very first mile without stopping only three years ago. But I'm an experienced workhorse of a writer. Recently,

My arm is itching like crazy because I have a poison ivy rash shaped like Italy. At least it's not as bad as a couple of years ago, when my arm

I'm on the home stretch of revising my novel (again). Lately I've been having trouble focusing at home, partly because it's too cold to hide in my

Recently, one of my writing students asked for advice on how she should structure her novel. “I already have fifty pages and I don't know

Congratulations to everyone who took part in NaNoWriMo! Whether you made it to the finish line or not, we probably all have this in common after