http://www.heathersellers.com/blog Official blog of Heather Sellers Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:36:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Watch for an episode, hosted by Leeza Gibbons, on face blindness in September.....more information soon. http://www.heathersellers.com/blog/2008/08/07/health-corners-lifetime-network/ Every writer I know wants big chunks of time in which to work. I'm off teaching for the summer, and then some--I have time now. And, as I've suspected, time is good but it is not everything! It's not exactly what is needed. When I have a whole big giant ... http://www.heathersellers.com/blog/2008/07/17/big-old-hunk-of-time/ In the summer, it's hard to leave the house without sunglasses, water bottle, and a book of poetry.  Three things that are slim and provide protection and sustenance. Here are three new poetry collections perfect for July: Mary Jo Bang's ELEGY.  Devastating poems about her son's overdose. They're very intense but ... http://www.heathersellers.com/blog/2008/07/06/three-poets-for-summer/ It was trying to escape, I suppose, that's why I covered it with my hands, but this is a real, giant, edible, white morel. There was an ash borer type bug living inside. Emerald green. http://www.heathersellers.com/blog/2008/06/21/the-largest-morel-in-captivity/   My dog, my father, and my mother are all the exact same age. They’re like my untriplets. I wish they were differently spaced so I could learn one thing at a time, and apply it, with great grace. I want a different preparation. They each have bad backs, bad hips, ... http://www.heathersellers.com/blog/2008/06/21/infirmity/ Last year, I stood with the writers on the beach, and we burned our fears and regrets and hatred in a pyre. Some loud unritualized men interrupted us, and mocked us.  Fortunately, we had enough regrets to stay focused—we had a lot to burn. This year I cleared the week and ... http://www.heathersellers.com/blog/2008/06/21/solstice/ “First, there is the barrier between image and language,” writes Irving Yalom in Love’s Executioner. “Mind thinks in images but, to communicate with another, must transform image into thought and then thought into language. That march, from image to thought to language, is treacherous. Casualties occur: the rich, fleecy texture ... http://www.heathersellers.com/blog/2008/06/21/images/ (The Unfinal Assignment is below....a few posts down....here's Kay's response):  "The voices of doubt were very aggressive. Lots of, "what's the point? It's not Friday." Lots of ragging on me for falling behind and being sick. Not nice, these demons of doubt. It took me a while to stay still. I noticed I ... http://www.heathersellers.com/blog/2008/06/05/kays-unfinal/ Really, Toss It     Once I was in a conversation with an extraordinary and famous chef. She said something during the course of the chat that has always stuck with me. “Never hesitate to throw out anything. Just throw the whole thing out. Toss it. Don’t get obligated to the thing.”   In writing, ... http://www.heathersellers.com/blog/2008/06/05/really-toss-it/ How did you get yourself to the desk? I walked over to the Albion College atrium which is this room with massive window walls, stage lights, a wooden staircase, pterodactyl skeletons, and a wave simulatior How did you keep yourself there? I sat down, pulled up one of the tables and wrote, then spiraled then wrote ... http://www.heathersellers.com/blog/2008/06/01/matts-unfinal/