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For Tonight and What We Say

Posted on October 24, 2018 by Esther Cohen / 4 Comments

For tonight I am teaching a class about writing and what we want to say and also what we don’t.  When I write a story or tell one what I don’t say i...

Good Stories/Poetry/words/writing

It doesn’t matter when you write the story down

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Esther Cohen / 3 Comments

I don’t sleep much and sometimes I count although I am not a numbers person maybe I would be better off saying some words whooping crane but I try numbers...

Good Stories/hope

My Friend Cynthia Came Back From Jordan

Posted on July 5, 2018 by Esther Cohen / 1 Comment

A few times a year she’s a volunteer dentist She’s back from Jordan now. In Jordan the Syrians were bombing 45,000 Syrians seeking refugee status 45...

County Route 20/Middlefield

Some Days Are Better Than Others

Posted on June 14, 2018 by Esther Cohen / 1 Comment

  I woke up with words and sun in the window and a story to write (maybe I’ll write it) about Eileen married to farmer named Jim very beautiful Eilee...

family/Jews

Right Angles (Day 26 NaMoPo)

Posted on April 26, 2018 by Esther Cohen / 2 Comments

Yesterday at a stranger’s to pick up a manuscript struck once again by how there are right angle apartments  everything has a linear place  a chair is abs...

family/National Write a Poem a Day Month/TRUE/words/writing

My Mother Was My First Reader

Posted on April 4, 2018 by Esther Cohen / 8 Comments

My mother was my first reader. She had some suggestions. I’ve never been good at suggestions, even then. I’d written a story about two friends based...

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