James Mckean, My professor at Queens suggested I read Tillie Olsen’s, “I Stand Ironing,” after he read a story I’m working on about my son’s anxiety and my own. I just got the book, “Tell Me a Riddle” in the mail yesterday and when I sat down to read last night after a loooong day, [...]
On this Father’s Day I wanted to write about how my dad taught me to find pleasure in food when I was a child. Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at fourteen-years-old, I had two strikes against me when it came to food. Strike one= as women, we are not supposed to love food. Instead, we [...]
SELF-CARE FOR MOM WRITERS
June is for Juicy
By Amy Mercer
Our annual field trip to the strawberry patch is almost here and I’m looking forward to the buckets of fresh-off-the-vine, sweet berries to use in my strawberry, goat cheese, walnut and spinach salad. The activity will wear my children out so when we return home they’ll [...]
Here’s an extended version of my MFA acceptance story I told last night at our program dinner to the other writers at my table. They asked when I mentioned that I only knew I was coming to the residency two weeks ago. So, I told them this story….
I told them how I called the director [...]
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