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Blog postUpdate: 2020. This is something I wrote in 2005. During the opening ceremonies at the World Series Game 2 in San Francisco in 2003, a giant American flag filled the field, held high by representatives of our armed services. A Marine who had lost both legs and an arm tossed out the first pitch. The looks on the faces of the athletes was hard to misinterpret. They may have spent time on the DL, but looking at this young man standing tall in his uniform put everything in a very different light. So,7 months ago Read more
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Blog postI did write this, but I don’t remember why exactly. For a class I was taking? It was pre-legalization and pre-dispensaries, so there’s that.
Anyway. Oh, the places you’ll go when you clean out your file drawers. Alpha-Hendrixanol™ (as advertised in AARP Magazine) Developed by the Pheelgood School of Herbal Energetics Wouldn’t you like to turn back the clock and regain the joi de vivre you had in your twenties? What if you could recapture the ability to attend concerts at9 months ago Read more -
Blog postApril 6th, 2020
Closets and drawers have been weeded through and organized. Small repairs have been made here and there as we continue to shelter in place. After years of dreading the task,it was finally time to get out the big box of photos that had been languishing unsorted for decades, probably. On a day when I was feeling the urge to purge, I started going through the massive piles and files of photos, determined to thin out and discard many of the duplicates, the meaningles11 months ago Read more -
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On a whim, I recently combed through my bookshelves and gathered together all the print books, anthologies and journals I have contributed to in some way: either as writer/ editor, beta reader, Kickstarter donor or friend. Some authors kindly added my name to the acknowledgements, which came as a pleasant surprise. The book I am holding is the latest addition to these collected works: Dine, published by Hippocampus Books, just released.
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Blog postOn this day, the one hundredth anniversary of his birth, here are the thoughts I jotted down to read at his memorial service in 2001.
My dad was a teacher, and like many outstanding teachers, he never took time off from teaching. Sure, there were vacations and summers, but he was always on the job. If no students were around, he always had my sister and me.
I have put together some of his most important lessons into a set of guidelines that I call “Sam Elkind’s Guide to Livin1 year ago Read more -
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Blog postI read this piece at the Octopus Literary Salon at an event that paired published authors with emerging writers. I wrote it in response to my partner’s piece, which touched on smoking, the wind, being young and making mistakes. I didn’t know right away how to respond, so I looked out the window and listened. My writing space: a back table at the Bandon Library.
The seas are rough today. A nearby foghorn sounds out a short mournful note every couple of minutes or s2 years ago Read more -
Blog postYes, our mother made us both wear the hamantaschen costumes
It’s April 9th, my sister’s birthday. In what has become an annual tradition–for now anyway–I’m re-posting this edited version.
Five years ago, in 2014, I was out of town at the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop and missed being here for her birthday. So I put together something special to make up for being away, because we always celebrated our birthdays together.
When Susie turned 50, I did a retrospecti2 years ago Read more -
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Blog postIf they allowed me a playlist for tomorrow, it would have to include these three tunes.
Thanks for all the good wishes from near and far.
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Blog postI did this last year and it helped me see that I had been slightly more productive than I thought. Let’s see what happened this past year in my writing life…
A look back at what I wrote in 2018: A number of pieces for Retrospect, which are listed on my Articles and Interviews page here. This was a wonderful opportunity to reach back and respond to a variety of prompts. All told, I published 32 essays on this website. Sadly, Retrospect is no longer an option for this sort of pe2 years ago Read more
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This book offers 50 creative writing lesson plans from the imaginative and highly acclaimed 826 National writing labs. Created as a resource to reach all students (even those most resistant to creative writing), the off-beat and attention-grabbing lessons include such gems as "Literary Facebooks," where students create a mock Facebook profile based on their favorite literary character, as well as highly practical lessons like the "College Application Essay Boot Camp." These writing lessons are written by experts—and favorite novelists, actors, and other entertainers pitched in too.
- Road-tested lessons from a stellar national writing lab
- Inventive and unique lessons that will appeal to even the most difficult-to-reach students
- Includes a chart linking lessons to the Common Core State Standards
826 National is an organization committed to supporting teachers, publishing student work, and offering services for English language learners.
There Was a Fire Here is the story of how Nye adjusts to the turning point that will forever mark the “before and after” in her life—and a chronicle of her attempts to honor the lost symbols of her past even as she struggles to create a new home for her family.
We put out a call for humorous work that was about experiencing a disaster, or surviving a hurricane, or living in New Jersey. We hoped that we might be able to bring a smile to some folks by sharing similar experiences, and we expected a fair number of responses from those in the area who had not been affected by Sandy or who had been affected but still had enough left in them to reach out to others. There is no way we could have predicted the world-wide response that resulted as the work for this anthology came pouring in from around the globe.
From New Zealand to New York, from Denmark to New Jersey, the graphic stories and the short stories, the memoirs and the poems poured in. The world was watching, understanding and reacting. Now Oh Sandy An Anthology of Humor for a Serious Purpose is in your hands. We thank you for having purchased the anthology. All proceeds from the purchase of this anthology go to organizations that are involved with providing aid to those who have been affected by Sandy. Visit the website www.ohsandybook.com for the names and addresses of some of these organizations.
Featuring works by Diana M. Amadeo, Lynn Beighley, Peter Barlow, Brenda Bishop Blakey, Noreen Braman, Lissa Brown, James Butler, Mark Capps, Katherine Checkley, Ann Clark, Cary Collett, Sarah Collie, Michael Dalelio, Kate Delany, Patrick Di Justo, Andrea Donio, Lisa Egle, AJ Fader, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Erika Hoffman, Gill Hoffs, Sally Houtman, Thomas E. Kennedy, Nancy Kho, Jen Knox, Laurie Kolp, lil' g, Steve Mansfield, Lyn McConchie, Roisin McLean, Joseph Nebus, Risa Nye, P.R. O'Leary, Thomas Pluck, Erika Price, Diana M. Raab, Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Frankie Sachs, Peggy Sarjeant, David Sherman, Jack Silbert, Anton Sim, Traci Stein, Tina Traster, Brian White & Steve Walker.
This heartfelt collection includes a raucous chorus of diverse voices: all of them full of excitement, optimism, and hope about life with no kids left at home.
This is not a "how to" book, It's a volume that captures "how it is. " You'll want to mark it up with exclamation points and your own thoughts--and return to your
favorite entries again and again.
-- Karen Levin Coburn
co-author, Letting Go: A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years
( Harper Paperbacks,2003)
-- Carin Rubenstein, PhD
Author of Beyond the Mommy Years (Springboard Press, 2007)
I wish I'd read this book before my daughters headed off to college. These fine writers make the empty nest a little less lonely.
-- Ellen Sussman, Bad GirlsS: 26 Writers Misbehave (WW Norton, 2007) and On A Night Like This (Warner, 2004)