For self-care as a writer, I clean the oven–once every twelve years. My mother always said, “Clean your oven every twelve years, whether it needs it or not.” Full disclosure: She never said that. But, although most household chores are…
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One Grate Task
Challenged to write something involving a cheese grater, our author finds art imitating life, creating existential tension. 4 minute read.
Brenda Ueland on Chekhov and Passions
“Yet it is consoling that if [Chekhov] did not know all about cruelty, gluttony, cowardice, coldness in himself, he could not have written about them. Great men feel and know everything that mean men feel, even more clearly, but they…