Our Art: A Wonderful Friend, A Terrible Master
My brother, Walt Hampton, is a very talented musician and also a highly skilled music teacher. In fact, if you have a child in public school, it may be that your child’s elementary music teacher uses one of Walt’s books on teaching marimba. Perhaps the teacher has...Drowning in Music, Tasting It, Touching It: Imagery For the Indescribable
Last week at a book reading I met author Shannon Huffman Polson http://aborderlife.com/ and heard her read from her memoir North of Hope. It is a story of her grief pilgrimage, travelling to a spot in the Arctic wilderness where her father and her stepmother were...How (Or Maybe Why) to Keep Writing After You’ve Been Hurt By Writing
Yesterday someone said to me, “You’re a real writer. You have the scars to prove it.” If scars are what qualify you, then I’m definitely in. Anybody who has ever received no from an editor or publisher (and that pretty much means anybody who...How To Keep Your Fire As a Writer Alive, Even If You Can’t Just “Be a Writer”
There have been years when I’ve been able to dedicate a lot of time to writing and years when I haven’t. But even when I wasn’t doing what seemed like “real writing,” I never really stopped working with words. There were smaller things...
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I am a writer who loves good music and good stories. It’s been my privilege to combine these loves by writing fiction that honors the creation of beauty, even in the bleakest of circumstances, through the creation of music. Writing has also led me to a deep interest in the recent history of central and eastern Europe.
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