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This past March, I gave a reading at a retirement home in Northampton. The audience was small, yet attentive and kind. Mostly female, participants included a sampling of ages and cognitive functioning. After I read a handful of poems from my chapbook, I engaged them in a conversation, beginning with the question: Do any ofContinue reading “We Are All Writers”

What is the world of your book? Celia asks during our first consultation. I’m writing a memoir. Last October I set a goal to complete the first draft by the end of the 2022 calendar year (there were tempting incentives offered by another professional memoir editor). Goal setting has always worked for me as aContinue reading “What is the world of your book?”

     As this new year begins, I’m reminded of a brief, unique teaching experience that began some 42 years ago this month. Though temporary and lasting only five months, the course I created and taught that semester at a community college has made an indelible mark in my memory for reasons that will be described here.Continue reading “A Memorable Teaching Experience”

Thursday, December 8, I’ll be reading at the Northampton Senior Center at 1pm. 

My “Little Bit of Paradise”          In the 1920s, my grandparents and their three children lived in Dorchester, Massachusetts. As the owner of Yellin Dry Goods store in downtown Boston, my grandfather dreaded his daily commute by automobile to and from work. When he learned that a place called Hull, a lovely seaside town on Boston’sContinue reading “I LOVE HULL”