Monthly Archives: March 2015
Remembering Mrs. Timmer, lessons learned at Blythe Park School, and going indie
Mrs. Timmer, who taught fourth grade at Blythe Park Elementary School in Riverside back in the seventies, had a way of speaking to nine and ten year-olds in a way that was never condescending, unlike some teachers, whose names will … Continue reading
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Tagged Alchemy's Daughter, Blythe Park, childhood, creative process, individualist, Riverside IL, writing fiction
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Goodbye house next door, hello new novel
The walls of my Wrigleyville office are shaking because the building next door is being torn down. Another vintage home giving way to the bulldozer and making way for a new, luxury, single-family home. Before it was bought by a … Continue reading
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