It's embarrassing….
Embarrassing, that is, when I just realized I haven't even blogged for a month. That might say something about how little writing I've gotten done this semester, too. I sneak in an hour here and there, and I did write one entire weekend afternoon, but that is far from...
Life Imitates Art
While I was writing Chasing AllieCat, life kept imitating art. I wrote Sadie's crash in the MTN bike race, and later that week, I crashed. A body in the LeHillier/SouthBend woods was found in the last year...the list goes on...Anyway, next week, I am undertaking an...
Summer is zipping past
I haven't felt like much of a writer this summer. With all the traveling I've been doing, my writing energy has been focused on composing the proposal for the NEH Grant "Bridging Cultures" which we are calling "South Africa as a Metaphor for the World: Stories that...
The famous TABLE, the famous house
I took an illegal photo (cameras forbidden!) of this picture (imagine that--me?) in the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, just so I'd have it to compare with the photo below. SEE? It's the SAME TABLE. This is the table where Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk sat to...
The Lion Farm, a post from June in South Africa (when I had no internet)
June 15, Glen Garriff Lion Farm near Harrisburg on the way to Barberton.We drove through four locked gates, and in the first lion pen, we were this close...see this big guy reflected in the car? The next day began with the pleasant sound of lions roaring at...
Robben Island
Robben Island.Scott, our friend, Mzukizi, and I visited Robben Island about two weeks before PResident Obama and Michelle did. Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years or the crime of being a member of the ANC (African National Congress) and protesting against the...
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