Love All: A Summer of Reading Sports Biographies
Today is the first day of summer and that means TENNIS! Watching lots and lots of tennis that is – …
Author Archives: Carol Vogt
Reading Like a Writer
Do you read like a writer? Do you pay close attention to all of the elements that create a great …
Writing Resolutions 2013
I started writing a post about Flash Fiction when a little thought started poking through and distracting me: I haven’t …
Spell Check: Why Can’t I Spell Misspell?
The word “whether” did me in. I still remember the crushing disappointment of losing the sixth grade spelling bee to …
Listening to Moby Dick Big Read
I became inordinately excited when I learned that Herman Melville’s novel “Moby Dick” was going to be available in audio …
Book Review: Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
It’s fun to read a book or watch a movie set in my hometown of Seattle, so I was looking …
Summer vacation reading destination: Lenox Library, Lenox, MA
Every summer I have the pleasure of spending a few idyllic weeks in the bucolic Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts. I …
Note to Self: Get Organized
I am a fairly organized person. When it comes to managing clutter, I adhere to Benjamin Franklin’s credo: “A place …
Writing Fragments: Having Fun with Word Collages
In a corner of our home office sits a purple plastic tub overflowing with a tangle of stuff some might …
Cabinets of Curiosities
In the Science section of the New York Times, I recently read a review of a museum exhibition and book …
