by Andi | Dec 2, 2011 | Andi's Book, Written and Wrought
What if we just put into words what we really felt, what we really saw, what we really knew? What if we laid those words out raw and cracked and not at all complete except that they are ours? What if we stopped trying to make it pretty or safe or even kind and instead... by Andi | Nov 30, 2011 | Andi's Book, Written and Wrought
I just found the last binder clip in my desk and attached it to my friend’s story about the enslaved girl who ended up in prison when her owner’s bedroom caught fire. It wasn’t the girl’s fault, but what did that matter. Beside that clipped... by Andi | Nov 28, 2011 | Andi's Book, Written and Wrought
I got my first real feedback on the book today. It was good feedback – helpful, insightful, wise – and painful. Good critique is often painful. The truth is that this is by far the hardest thing I’ve ever written, and it is by far the most important... by Andi | Nov 28, 2011 | Andi's Book, Written and Wrought
I got my first real feedback on the book today. It was good feedback – helpful, insightful, wise – and painful. Good critique is often painful. The truth is that this is by far the hardest thing I’ve ever written, and it is by far the most important... by Andi | Nov 24, 2011 | Andi's Book, Written and Wrought
To be honest, gratefulness isn’t the first emotion to come to mind on Thanksgiving this year. That space is, sadly, reserved for grief now. I hope that won’t always be the case. But on this first anniversary of my mother’s death from cancer, I find...