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Gail Godwin

Author of A Mother and Two Daughters, A Southern Family, and Flora

(Living Inside the Parentheses)

October 20, 2020 by Gail Godwin

16 Days Until the Election “When will this end?” my friend Heather wrote. “Sometimes I feel my life is in suspended animation...or trapped in a pair of parentheses.” Inside parentheses is where … [Read more...]

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Self-trusters and Self-Publishers

July 27, 2020 by Gail Godwin

Carrie, who is both Today is Sunday, July 26, 2020, and the plague is still here. In June I had a birthday, which I was planning to spend alone in Woodstock. I had some soul work to catch up … [Read more...]

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Young Man on the Edge of a Crowd. June 5, 2020

June 7, 2020 by Gail Godwin

I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. --Samuel Johnson, “Biography,” Oct. 13, 1750 He was a lot bigger and taller … [Read more...]

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Robb Forman Dew, 1946-2020

May 31, 2020 by Gail Godwin

“The profound and the mundane are joined at the hip, and each one is dependent upon the human ability to recognize the other.” —Robb Forman Dew, Being Polite to Hitler (2011) Today is Saturday, May … [Read more...]

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PLAGUE SCREED

May 18, 2020 by Gail Godwin

screed       1. a ranting piece of writing       2. cement-like material laid onto a floor to create a smooth level       (from Old English screade, a piece cut off; a shred.) Today is … [Read more...]

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The silence beyond the silence in the plague

May 13, 2020 by Gail Godwin

Today is Monday, May 11, 2020 It is quiet up here on the hill in Woodstock. Recently I realized it was too quiet and it took me a moment to figure out why. What was missing was the intermittent … [Read more...]

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Through a glass darkly…May 3, 2020, Plague

May 4, 2020 by Gail Godwin

“I can’t do this,” I told Evie, my therapist. “Look at the YouTube of Meryl Streep celebrating Stephen Sondheim’s ninetieth birthday,” Evie suggested. “Meryl has no makeup on and she’s wearing her … [Read more...]

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My (Plague) Week

April 26, 2020 by Gail Godwin

I am old enough to remember being a little girl old enough to read Eleanor Roosevelt’s “My Day” column, which was syndicated in the Asheville Citizen-Times six days a week. The president’s wife wrote … [Read more...]

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Indignation

April 20, 2020 by Gail Godwin

Today is Sunday, April 19, Plague 2020. Anthony Trollope attributed his thirty-third novel, The Way We Live Now, to “A loss of good nature in the fever of indignation.” His faithful readership … [Read more...]

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Easter week, Plague 2020

April 11, 2020 by Gail Godwin

Today is April 11, Holy Saturday in the church calendar. Passover began at sunset on Wednesday. My editor and her husband had their first Zoom Seder “with family from Copenhagen, Toronto, California, … [Read more...]

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