• IT ALL STARTED WITH GOLDIE RIPPER

    Hello everyone, and welcome to my blog, “My Writerly Life,” which pretty much encapsulates my nearly 84 years. I hope you will read along and perhaps “Follow” my weekly posts, and share your own reading habits and inspirations. I was not born knowing I was a writer, but I was an inveterate reader from a Read more

  • COMING SOON . . .

    No, not the circus, or a movie, or a new hotel—a new blog entitled My Writerly Life, with squibs about literature, the arts, people, things that inspire me. An introductory blog will magically appear 9/13, and a review of Sebastian Barry’s new Booker Prize nominated novel on 9/17. But you do not have to remember Read more