April 2nd, 2009

"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

My review
rating: 5 of 5 stars
In TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Harper Lee captures the essence of childhood amidst the tensions of a small southern town torn by prejudice and intolerance.
I don’t know how old I was when I first read TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD — eleven maybe, or [...]

April 1st, 2009

Jumping Jacks for Writers

Like most writers, I dread the blank page. Some particularly nasty blank pages have stared at me for hours while my brain slowly disintegrated. Yet, like diarrhea after a double dose of Ex-Lax, a blank page is, alas, unavoidable. After all, every printed page in existence was, at one time, nastily blank.
Enter jumping jacks for [...]