In Some Darker Place

Thoughts and Musings

By Liz Latty “Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.” -Hélène Cixous  When I was a small girl, my mother taught me how to make a bed. She taught me how to stretch the fitted sheet that often didn’t quite fit the mattress...

And have you read… Be Safe I Love You?

Alumni News, Have You Read?

Goddard College alum Cara Hoffman’s latest book, Be Safe I Love You  is a breathtaking thriller about a returning female veteran, set in upstate New York. The Sunday Telegraph (UK) called it: “One of the Five Best Modern War Novels.” When Lauren Clay...

The Writer’s Road Trip

Thoughts and Musings

By Ron Heacock Descended at least culturally if not genetically from the ranks of our most exulted literary road warriors – writers like John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, and Ken Kesey – my wife Karen Walasek and I have exercised and exorcised our wanderlust cyclically...

On Writing and Vincent Van Gogh

Thoughts and Musings

By Tyler Whidden 1.) Write every day. Every goddamn day.    What many don’t remember (or even knew to begin with) is that Vincent Van Gogh produced most of his body of work – over 2,000 pieces of art – in the last ten years of his life, and most of those were done in...