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Sunday, October 2, 2016 9:38:23 AM
Léna Roy wrote a blog post titled On Seeing Ava DuVernay's 13TH:
Léna said, "13TH opened the 54th NewYork Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall on Friday night and I had the good fortune escort my amazing, politically conscious and thoughtful 15 year old niece Magda.It is the first documentary ever to open the film festival, and..." more
Thursday, November 26, 2015 3:14:00 PM
Léna Roy wrote a blog post titled Trying to Live in Thanksgiving:
Léna said, "A cold crisp November morning curled up in a cozy chair by the fire in Starbucks, piping hot coffee and my laptop open, my writing mojo strong and swift. I had even found an available outlet to plug in - both literally and figuratively. Tap, tap,..." more
Wednesday, June 17, 2015 9:07:36 PM
Léna Roy wrote a blog post titled Not Just For YA Book Club:
Léna said, "Oh so many books, so little time! But us lovers of language must make time, yes? So when asked to moderate a book club comprised of accomplished Westchester librarians and teachers by the incomparable Z of Yonkers Riverfront Library, I didn't..." more
Monday, March 16, 2015 7:39:09 AM
Léna Roy wrote a blog post titled Ode to a Ceremony: The Scholastic Writing Awards!:
Léna said, "Yesterday marked the third annual Hudson-to-Housatonic Scholastic Writing Awards at Manhattanville College. My husband Rob and I took this on as part of our work with Writopia Lab and to enact Writopia's mission of spreading joy, literacy and..." more
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 2:41:20 PM
Léna Roy wrote a blog post titled THIS SUNDAY: Great Books and Local Impact!:
Léna said, "My friends - it has been so long since I have written, but look at what I've been doing! For those who live out of reach of this event, please consider helping us spread joy, literacy and critical thinking to children and teens EVERYWHERE!..." more
Thursday, November 6, 2014 8:50:15 PM
Léna Roy wrote a blog post titled Movie Trailers, New York, and What it Means to Be Alive:
Léna said, "Special guest blogger: Kaley Mamo!Alecia Whitaker (Wildflower), Writopians Magda, Amanda, David Levithan, Writopians Kaley and Elizabeth at the Jefferson Market Library for Teen Author Reading Night!Good evening my turtledoves - you are in for a..." more
Friday, October 3, 2014 12:35:32 PM
Léna Roy wrote a blog post titled Help Me Celebrate Five Years of Working with Young Writers!:
Léna said, "Greetings my loves!I’d like to enlist your help in promoting young writers.As you all know, I started wading into the world of writing as a child and have been swimming with words ever since. I believe in the power of creating, of linking..." more
Thursday, July 24, 2014 10:02:10 PM
Léna Roy wrote a blog post titled The Next Generation of Authors Visit with John Green's Publisher!:
Léna said, "How would you describe the world of publishing dear readers? Some look at it as merely another business, a process of supply and demand. But to aspiring authors, it is a world in which they yearn to belong.So how does one begin?At Writopia Lab, we..." more
Saturday, June 28, 2014 3:06:12 PM
Léna Roy wrote a blog post titled One Week of Practicing Transcendental Meditation and . . .:
Léna said, "I began my Transcendental Meditation training in Bedford Hills a week ago, the day after my 46th birthday. I had been feeling a bit woozy from experimenting with my new glasses : progressive lenses, aka trifocals! (The benefits of another..." more
Friday, June 13, 2014 2:47:30 AM
Léna Roy wrote a blog post titled Life is a Cabaret at Studio 54:
Léna said, "The irony was not lost on me as I watched Michelle Williams-as-Sally Bowles sing the title number from CABARET last night, capturing the essence of the whole play in that one song: What good is sitting alone in your room/ come hear the music play:..." more
Thursday, May 22, 2014 2:15:10 PM
Léna Roy wrote a blog post titled Everybody's Doing It . . .:
Léna said, "Everybody's doing it. David, Lynch, Martin Scorcese, Oprah, Ellen, Jerry Seinfeld, Eddie Vedder, Judd Apatow, Kurt Vonnegut, Lena Dunham, Moby, to name a few. There are pilot programs for it to be taught to highly stressed populations in jails..." more
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 8:55:27 PM
Léna Roy wrote a blog post titled Hello Again, Scholastic Awards, and Meaning:
Léna said, "Happy New Year? Dear Readers, I am still here - alive and kicking through this long, hard winter - in WritopiaLand, writing more emails and notes, delving deeper into the worlds' of emerging young writers than working on my own noveling...." more
Friday, February 28, 2014 2:32:24 AM
Léna Roy wrote a blog post titled I Held Hands with Judy Blume!!!!!:
Léna said, "There aren't many people I would drive through two hours of bumper-to-bumper traffic to see, but when my sister suggested I meet her at the main branch of the New York City Public Library on 42nd Street and 5th avenue to see Judy Blume and Eric..." more
Friday, February 28, 2014 2:32:24 AM
Léna Roy wrote a blog post titled Why Teach Creative Writing?:
Léna said, "A high school senior in Texas is writing a paper arguing that creative writing should be an elective in schools. Because I teach creative writing, he asked me for a quote in defense of that profession: why does it matter?I could explain how creative..." more
Friday, February 28, 2014 2:32:24 AM
Léna Roy wrote a blog post titled Why Words Matter: Star-Studded Author Panel at FLMS!:
Léna said, "We held a literary event last night at my kids' place of learning, Fox Lane Middle School. It was a veritable authorpalooza. Here I am with authors James Howe and Gae Polisner, gazing at Rebecca Stead.Community is awesome, isn't it? Communities..." more
Friday, February 28, 2014 2:32:23 AM
Léna Roy wrote a blog post titled Developing Empathy through Writing:
Léna said, "I've been thinking a lot about empathy, and that it is paramount to the survival of our humanity. The kind of empathy I'm talking about isn't just the ability to discern what someone else is feeling, but it's having the empirical knowledge..." more
Friday, February 28, 2014 2:30:26 AM
Léna Roy wrote a blog post titled Damn You, Goldfinch!:
Léna said, "The other night I had one of those dreams that ran in my head like a movie, or better yet, as a novel. I would not let myself wake up, for I was conscious enough that it was a great story and that I needed to remember it to turn it into said novel...." more
Monday, September 16, 2013 5:06:08 PM
Léna Roy wrote a blog post titled Italians, Arches and Getting Older:
Léna said, "I may not be a Delicate Arch, but I am forming over time.We pull up to the Moab Valley Inn and there's a group of about twenty Harley Davisdson's in front. We have already been dazzled by our drive through the Rockies and then winding around..." more
Monday, September 9, 2013 11:13:24 AM
Léna Roy wrote a blog post titled Back in the Saddle?:
Léna said, "Hello my turtle doves! I've missed you! My writing self has been quiet for the summer, but I can assure you that FALL is here and I am back in the saddle - back to writing and nurturing my own inner life, back to spreading around the writing..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:01:27 PM
Léna Roy wrote a blog post titled Goin' Back to Moab . . .:
Léna said, "I can't believe it. I actually booked tickets today for a trip that has been so long overdue - waiting for the right time, waiting for money, waiting for the kids to age appropriately, waiting for . . .For me, decisions can be hard. I waffle. I..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:01:27 PM
Léna Roy wrote a blog post titled WILLingness and GRACE:
Léna said, "I've been quiet on the interwebs. Perhaps that's because I am writing? Not exactly . . .I have been hanging out in the world of willingness and grace. Mostly because I don't know how I get out of personal ruts and change for the better. How I let go..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:01:27 PM
Léna Roy wrote a blog post titled Moments in Love:
Léna said, "Late June at the Palladium, summer of 1986, 3 in the morning. I have just turned eighteen. Almost empty dance floor. Combat boots, vintage dress, flattop hair. No more high school, college looming, life looming. Michelle and I are dancing to..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:01:27 PM
Léna Roy wrote a blog post titled Balance, Writing and Dairy Dreams:
Léna said, "Everyone is looking for balance in their lives, for all of the pieces of the pie to have enough . . . girth. But sometimes trying to balance everything stresses us out so much that we fall off kilter and lose our way.I have been perfectly..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 7:01:27 PM
Léna Roy wrote a blog post titled Playfully Human:
Léna said, "She has always felt a bit alien.Other. A child isolating herself, feeling like an outsider.Not knowingWhere she ends and the other beginsNot knowing.Still: pockets of presenceFeel like a present (A cliché is nothing but a repeated truth.)The..." more
Friday, November 18, 2016 12:34:31 PM
Léna Roy wrote a blog post titled Visiting the set of A Wrinkle in Time:
Léna said, "There was something more meaningful than I could ever have imagined about visiting the set of A Wrinkle in Time this past Monday on the heels of this crushing election. It wasn’t just because I have been waiting almost 40 years for this to be..." more