Review of Model: A Memoir by Cheryl Diamond

August 5, 2016.Reading time 1 minute.

Think the Wizard of Oz, but with an orange cat instead of a little black dog…and more eating disorders. Cheryl Diamond is an aspiring model facing the world on her own for the first time…in stillettos. Having landed a contract with a New York agency, this plucky teen packs up her cat and heads for […]

On paying attention: a lesson in toothbrushing and writing from Colette Brooks

November 28, 2013.Reading time 1 minute.

On one block I see the windows through which scores of young women once leapt to their deaths, fire driving them from factory floor to the cool of the open air…someone else who remembers place white roses on the sidewalk (Brooks, In the City).” In my attempt to be more mindful of the world around […]

Things that inspire me to write #62: Kate Jacobs

November 26, 2012.Reading time 1 minute.

A constant grey fog hanging overhead, large wooden deer and moose statues on almost every corner, and not a single green emblazoned grande cup in sight. If you ever have been to the Canadian town of Hope, you will know that is a small and sleepy little town—in every sense. In other words, the […]