Lelia
Gibbons, Gornick, Hardy, Bauby and Living Your Great Story
Great Story Coaching* outlines the 3 ways we tend to narrate our lives to ourselves. The victim story (similar to Parul Sehgal’s “trauma...
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Lelia
- Apr 2
- 4 min
Megan Marshall and the Art of Biography
As a biographer Megan Marshall plays very close to the vest. She doles out her subject in single words or phrases, holds stories out of...
Lelia
- Jan 8
- 3 min
Imagining 'Vague Days' Clearer through Writing*
I’m experiencing a concatenation of ideas about writing, self-understanding and self-actualization. Joan Didion started it. After her...
Lelia
- Jan 2
- 4 min
My Best-of Book List for 2021
I like year-end best-of lists. Reading others’ lists is a fun way to learn about things I’ve missed. And thinking about my own best-of...
Lelia
- Dec 24, 2021
- 2 min
Alter Ego as Creative Muse
To my delight, I fell down a Maxine Hong Kingston rabbit hole and discovered this gem from an interview in The Guardian. Describing a...
Lelia
- Dec 21, 2021
- 3 min
Edith Wharton + Principles of Creativity
Reading Edith Wharton, the biography by Hermione Lee, I’m becoming aware of why I never liked to read Edth Wharton’s novels, which are...
Lelia
- Dec 8, 2021
- 3 min
Memoir and the Moon
I used to pay a lot of attention to the first lines in books. I had a notebook where I wrote them down and classified them according to...
Lelia
- Dec 1, 2021
- 2 min
Falling in Love with Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald always wanted her children to be well-educated, to study foreign languages, to be employable. In her biography of...
Lelia
- Nov 3, 2021
- 3 min
Edith Wharton's Gardening Life
“I am intrigued by writers who garden and by gardeners who write. The pen and the trowel are not interchangeable, but seem often linked.”...