The Art of Writing Memoir
Workshop series in three consecutive Tuesdays learn: How and why memoir differs from autobiography, How to capture the essence of your personal experience, How to make it captivating to readers, How to...
View ArticleOregon Coast, Los Angeles Times
Read the original article here. August 26, 2012 FLORENCE, Ore. — My mind drifts back to Ken Kesey’s 1964 novel, “Sometimes a Great Notion,” as my friend Rob and I drive west from Eugene to the Oregon...
View ArticleMemoir: Faithful Narratives are Boring
Nobel-prize winner, Eric Kandel talks about how the time we spend remembering far outweighs the time we spend living. Kandel describes two brains, two bodies—one that experiences and one that...
View ArticleThe Tango Body, for Followers
There are hinges throughout the entire body. Not just the obvious ones—hips, elbows, knees—but the less obvious, too, shoulder blades, the vertebrae of the spinal column that lift and lower our ribs...
View ArticleThe Grass is Singing, Doris Lessing
The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’m not big on mysteries or whodunnits and this novel has a dose of both genres. But given that Doris Lessing is the author, you get not...
View ArticleToxic Stories, how to purge them
With all the skimming of Web stories, surfing the Net, speed reading my mind gets to feeling so gorged, I long for the virtual-room equivalent of the Romans' vomitorium.
View ArticleConsider St. Lucy’s Solution
Back when a prayer and a song and a hymn and a story were one and the same and when Sicily was still known as Zizily, the Siciliani celebrated the harvests of the three branches of life—the grape,...
View ArticleCreative Non-Fiction Workshops
January 15, 22 & February 5 – 6:45–8:45 p.m. SEE NEW TWO-FOR-ONE OFFER BELOW! Mechanics Institute Library Board Room, 4th floor 57 Post St. @ Montgomery San Francisco, CA – What Participants Say...
View ArticleConfessions From a Moving Van review
Confessions From a Moving Van by Amy Neftzger My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amy Neftzger may have invented a new genre, “van-tasy.” Her collection of stories is tied together by the narrator, a van who/that...
View ArticleBalance, the Business-Life Connection
As the number one son in a very traditional Sicilian American family, Jim experienced some of the best and some of the worst of my father's quirky personality (to put it affectionately). Since Jim is 9...
View ArticleSecret Power of Transitions, writing workshop
Writers, if the indispensable narrative arc eludes you, consider the seemingly insignificant structures that support the arc. The narrative arc is like a bridge span that cannot stand or hold its...
View ArticleSkin, muscle, bone, how deep is your writing?
Skin—You have the story locked inside of you, like Michelangelo's David was once locked in a block of Carrara marble. You envision it. You have not started to sculpt and whittle away. How many of us...
View ArticleWorkshop: Memoir & Creative Non-Fiction, Inventing the Truth
“Tell the truth even if you have to make it up.” —Bazooka Joe Workshop: Memoir & Creative Non-Fiction Inventing the Truth HOW TO CRAFT GOOD STORY “I am led to the proposition that there is no...
View ArticleTEDx Tango Talk, NY, 10/25/13
I'll be presenting a talk on Tango as part of the Hero's Journey, a la Joseph Campbell at this landmark event. I'll be presenting at TEDxLowerEastSide with speakers from a variety of backgrounds...
View ArticleBack to Basics, Writing Workshop
This is a writing workshop for writers who need help jump starting their writing, big or small projects. This workshop is perfect for the novice writer who needs advice, inspiration, direction getting...
View ArticleTEDx Talk, Tango, the Dance, the Journey, the Transformation
Para mis amigos quienes hablan español: LA TRADUCCION – por Demian Gawianski (demian@tangospanish.com) Conferencia TEDx en Lower Eastside sobre “Tango: el baile, el viaje, la transformación”, 25 de...
View ArticleProtected: True North, Alaska Bachelor Auction
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View ArticleWilderness Begins at Home, an excerpt
From the memoir, Wilderness Begins at Home, Travels with my big Sicilian Family, to be published in 2016 Chapter 1 La Familia Tutti Bene in Sicilia, 2006 A family reunion in the old country—it had...
View ArticleThe Serenity of Influence
As Molly read last night, I found that little compartment of my brain that is ever alert for messages from the muse taking in ideas for writing short stories. Her story read like European cinema, her...
View ArticleThree New Tango Books
Three new tango books---a novella, travel essays, and reportage on teaching tango in Africa.
View ArticleThe Heart of the Matter
February 14th, 2006–10, I was living in Buenos Aires, dancing tango every day. I knew that on Valentine’s Day none of my beloved tango partners would make any gesture of recognition of our love—even if...
View ArticleMy Personal Peace Movement
(Appeared in SKIRT!, August, 2009) In late 2006, I arrived in Buenos Aires with hair under my fingernails and blood in my eye. I was down and out after a long relationship ended. I had done the...
View ArticleThe Dharma Buddies of Auroville
Here’s a story about my visit to Auroville, February, 2018. Serenity personified.
View ArticleProtected: An Unconditional Woman
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View ArticleMy Latest Writing
You may notice I haven’t posted at my site for a while. I am currently posting stories almost daily at the Medium. I have a publication there I call NoMudNoLotus, Writer. Some of the best clarity...
View ArticleTango Maestros & Their Nicknames
Nicknames for the argentine tango maestros - composers & singers
View ArticleFog Catalogue
This is a work in progress and has been approved by the International Council on Fog Fog is divided into three greater categories according to the degree of Moisture (wet or dry), its Source-— from...
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