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Dreaming With Christina
I met Christina Ball first day of freshman year at Bowdoin College. She was my roommate and she arrived in our room with an entourage: a sister, a brother, a mother and father, a grandmother. They crowded in, inspected, turned over pillows, looked out windows, absorbed us — my father and me. We’d arrived first, [...]
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Tags: Bowdoin College, Christina Ball, Dreaming in Umbria, Italy, Roccafiore, Speak Language Center, Todi
Dreaming In Umbria
Dreaming in Umbria Creative Writing Workshop with Martha McPhee JUNE 9-16, 2012 Italianist, Christina Ball, is hosting a writing workshop at the luxury spa and wellness center, Roccafiori, in Todi, Italy in June 2012. She’s invited me to lead the workshops and I would love you all to come. Find out more …
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Tags: Christina Ball, Roccafiori, Speak Language Center, Todi, Umbria, Writing Workshop
The Captain And I: Italian Joy
Cullen and I set the alarm but slept right through it. A knock on the door woke us up, the taxi driver. He’d come to take us to the boat, ferrying us back to Naples. We were asleep. Woke fast. Threw everything in our suitcases. (There is only one boat a day.) He zipped us [...]
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The other night my younger sister, Joan Sullivan, was honored by the Bronx Academy of Letters for being its founding principal. She is now Deputy Mayor of Education for the City of Los Angeles. This is the speech she delivered: I want to get one thing straight. This school was not founded by me. The [...]
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Soiree with Focaccia
Saturday night the amazing and inspired Debbie Stier of Harper Studio organized a wonderful group of people that care deeply about the future of books and who are all carrying them forward, in one way or another, into the 21st Century, with the help of the internet. I hosted the soiree at my apartment with Debbie and my [...]
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Soccer Girls
Livia and Hannah Saturday morning soccer stars. They’ve been playing together since they were five. Today Hannah turns ten. Last season they were undefeated! We love the West Side Soccer League.
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