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Last week a reader emailed me in response to my post about grief and how I tend to work through things privately. She asked, “I understand being a private person, but I’m curious how that works since you write books and go on tours talking about things that have happened?” It’s a great question. My […]
Read MoreSteve and I are in the midst of a two-week West Wing marathon. I love the writing – plot, pacing, brilliant banter. It helps me think about the mixed reality of human life: how sometimes we win, but just as often we lose, either because we blow it or someone pulls some last minute stunt […]
Read MoreI just read an article in today’s New York Times called The Trauma of Being Alive. It pissed me off. It feeds the dysfunctional obsession with defining ourselves in terms of the worst thing that has happened so far. Child of bad parents? Been through an ugly divorce? Lose a friend or sibling or parent […]
Read MoreI spent some happy times on our vacation this week tooling around on this ridiculous purple bicycle. I know there are all kinds of metaphors just waiting for me in this, and I’ll dig them out eventually. (Expect to read about the Purple Huffy in a book someday down the road.) But for now, I’m […]
Read MoreI had a TON of dental work done when I was little – something like 13 teeth pulled, braces, surgery. There were metal bands and hooks and elastics and headgear. So much miraculous intervention between the ages of 6-12 to give me a working set of teeth and a viable smile. It’s one of the […]
Read MoreTV Commentary from a recent WTA tennis match: Brad Gilbert: “Why do you think Player X is struggling so?” Mary Joe Fernandez: “It’s amazing the difference when a player feels like they have everything to gain – they go out there and they’re swinging freely and they play really well. But then after winning, they […]
Read MoreAnne Lamott posted this on Facebook today, in response to someone who asked, “What job would you want if you weren’t a writer?” She said she’d want to sit by the door of her church with bowls of M&Ms and cherries and the Communion elements. She said many beautiful things, but here is the part […]
Read MoreWe went to a new church yesterday, visiting my friend Super G who lives south of the city (a strange thing about this area is how seldom residents cross the Charles River. Cambridge-siders live, work & play on one side, Bostonians on the other. So when we make the trek across it feels like a […]
Read MoreI’m asked often what books I’d recommend for writers learning about how to craft a memoir (Let me pause here to say: I loathe the word “craft” in conjunction with writing, but I have to admit it’s apt here: memoir requires building skills, but you also have to know what to take away, and how […]
Read MoreFor the past eight years, I’ve blogged over at Trish’s Dishes. If you’re looking for older posts (a recap of the launch of my first two books, my ongoing battle to keep THAT DOG out of the garbage, the advice I gave college sophomores on how to manage life) you can find them there. I’m […]
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Trish Ryan 