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Saturday, December 24, 2016 1:21:23 PM
Beth Kephart wrote a blog post titled seeking end-of-year perspective, from 95 feet above the city:
Beth said, "For my final 2016 Philadelphia Inquirer column, I took a train to the city with the men I love and stood at Cira Green, looking down, across, into, and through.I was seeking perspective of a personal and political kind following a tremulous year.My..." more
Thursday, December 22, 2016 6:59:23 AM
Beth Kephart wrote a blog post titled when the big book of the moment is not your cup of tea, but a gem of an essay collection is:
Beth said, "Time has not lately been my friend. I'm way behind on reading. I've got stacks of books here, begging for attention. I've got books behaving (for all the world to see) like furniture.A few days ago I began to read the big book of the moment, an..." more
Thursday, December 15, 2016 4:47:39 AM
Beth Kephart wrote a blog post titled setting politics aside in favor of community:
Beth said, "I've been spending time with people.Maybe that sentence would sound odd in the ear of a passing stranger, but those who know the contours of my life would understand. In my little house, all hours of each day, I work at words while my husband, in..." more
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 2:10:09 AM
Beth Kephart wrote a blog post titled a most extraordinary review of THIS IS THE STORY OF YOU:
Beth said, "I have spent this day in two ways only: At an early hour I Skyped with Ms. Tina Hudak and the young men of St. Albans Lower School of Washington about freedom, walls, inspiration, and building scenes and fictional time during a phenomenal..." more
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 2:05:31 AM
Beth Kephart wrote a blog post titled sunburst after darkness: at long last, I'm writing again:
Beth said, "I know this to be true about myself: I can't find peace unless I'm engaged in the never-entirely peaceful struggle of writing.I need to be inside a story. I need to find faith that story can matter.And now at last I am forty pages into a new book..." more
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 2:05:30 AM
Beth Kephart wrote a blog post titled Craft Forms 2016: celebrating artists among friends:
Beth said, "We seek community. We find our way toward those who share our passions. Last evening I had the pleasure of joining my husband, William Sulit, at the opening reception for Craft Forms 2016, an international juried exhibit featuring textiles, metal..." more
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 2:04:02 AM
Beth Kephart wrote a blog post titled an honor, an excerpt, my husband's clay:
Beth said, "I struggle, perhaps I always will, with striking the right balance. How much do we talk about ourselves out here? How much do we turn our attention to others? What does a small personal moment mean against the backdrop of grave concerns or..." more
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 1:54:42 AM
Beth Kephart wrote a blog post titled Alone in a Hurricane? Video responses to gorgeous questions inspired by the storms of now and THIS IS THE STORY OF YOU:
Beth said, "On this Thanksgiving Day, I have family, friends, earth, and sky, books and those who read them, stories and those who inspire them to be deeply grateful for. I have the eight dishes I'm making for our family of three, and the graciousness of our..." more
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 1:54:38 AM
Beth Kephart wrote a blog post titled in the struggle of right now, search for beauty: MOMENTS OF SEEING, Katrina Kenison:
Beth said, "In the struggle of right now, as I work to understand what I might do to strengthen fractured communities and identify (and work toward) hope, I make room, as well, for beauty.I sit with a neighbor I love and talk.I listen to the students who..." more
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 3:37:53 PM
Beth Kephart wrote a blog post titled language creeps back in:
Beth said, "In the early days of November, at dawn, I walked along the sea.I had been away from myself for a very long time. Anxious about the world, saddened by unkindness and untruthfulness of both the personal and political sort, not at all certain whether I..." more
Saturday, November 12, 2016 7:05:16 AM
Beth Kephart wrote a blog post titled we read to understand what it is to be another:
Beth said, "I recently wrote of my time, this past Tuesday, at Conestoga High School, where I met with teachers and administrators during a district-wide Artistry of Teaching program.I entered my teaching classroom early, as I tend to do. The room, shared by..." more
Wednesday, November 9, 2016 11:37:49 AM
Beth Kephart wrote a blog post titled bridges and not walls:
Beth said, "Yesterday I participated in a gorgeously-rendered Artistry of Teaching program for the T/E School District. Walked the hallways of my son's old high school. Saw again some of his favorite teachers and remembered why I loved them. Sat briefly at..." more
Sunday, November 6, 2016 2:01:22 PM
Beth Kephart wrote a blog post titled an interview with the old memoirist; Cape May in November:
Beth said, "The thing about the sea is that it's theater. Dawn and the people gather, waiting for the break of sun. Dusk and the people return, their friends, or memories, near.All eyes on the horizon. All bets on the sun. This past week, in Cape May, New..." more
Sunday, October 30, 2016 8:06:36 AM
Beth Kephart wrote a blog post titled pondering private lives lived out in public places, and a new memoir workshop at Longwood Gardens:
Beth said, "Today I share news of an upcoming one-day memoir workshop, to be conducted next October 15, 2017 at Longwood Gardens. Information is available here. Sign-ups begin in a week. Class size is limited. I'm thinking we all could use a turn in a..." more
Thursday, October 27, 2016 6:18:31 PM
Beth Kephart wrote a blog post titled all ready for the sea (Juncture Workshops):
Beth said, "What a time it has been. What lessons still rush in, at any age.In the deep mist and midst, we prepare for our nine writers, soon to join us by the sea for the second Juncture Memoir Workshop. I have read their beautiful early essays. I have learned..." more
Sunday, October 23, 2016 7:57:39 AM
Beth Kephart wrote a blog post titled lock and key:
Beth said, "Autumn, it seems, is finally setting in around here. The breeze carries a chill. The leaves are color. My son is home, for a few essential days. He comes by when I am standing here. A kiss on the cheek. Hey, Mom.How hard it is to anticipate how much..." more
Monday, October 17, 2016 7:08:22 AM
Beth Kephart wrote a blog post titled the glories of Tulsa (and Nimrod): a photo diary:
Beth said, "I arrived home just after midnight.I still had visions of Tulsa in my head.A Nimrod conference expertly curated and managed by Eilis O'Neal, on a very pretty University of Tulsa campus. A group reading with Chloe Honum, Sherry Thomas, Brenna..." more
Friday, October 14, 2016 6:11:47 AM
Beth Kephart wrote a blog post titled celebrating my husband's most-excellent pottery news (Craft Forms):
Beth said, "A few weeks ago we got the stupendous news that my husband's work had been juried into Craft Forms 2016, an internationally recognized premiere contemporary craft exhibition showcased at the Wayne Art Center from December 3, 2016 through January 28,..." more
Monday, October 10, 2016 7:03:12 AM
Beth Kephart wrote a blog post titled loneliness does not mean one has failed (Olivia Laing, The Lonely City):
Beth said, "I have carried Olivia Laing's The Lonely City from place to place this past month. Laing is a thrilling writer. A form breaker. A true, adult, expansive thinker. In Lonely she weaves together her personal story with the lives of Edward Hopper, Andy..." more
Thursday, October 6, 2016 6:26:42 AM
Beth Kephart wrote a blog post titled books and mud: remembering the flooding of the Arno (and One Thing Stolen):
Beth said, "Oh, bless that Taylor Norman of Chronicle Books, forever uplifting, forever near. Her email of yesterday shared this news that the 50th anniversary of the terrible flooding of Arno will be honored in San Francisco's own American Bookbinders..." more
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 7:26:25 AM
Beth Kephart wrote a blog post titled brilliant first draft? hardly.:
Beth said, "I write a first draft, but it isn't good. Plank, by plank, I take it apart. A new prologue helps me see what the book might be; it gives me a sail and a chart. A shift in tone pushes me to go more real, less arch. A shift in tone places into..." more
Sunday, October 2, 2016 6:08:23 AM
Beth Kephart wrote a blog post titled reflecting on the land that feeds us, in today's Philadelphia Inquirer:
Beth said, "We spent a week on a farm being cared for by the earth and those who know it best.We will never forget that land, our hosts. I tell that story in today's Philadelphia Inquirer."
Thursday, September 29, 2016 4:34:03 AM
Beth Kephart wrote a blog post titled how we keep on writing, how we center inside our song:
Beth said, "The workshop was over. We stood there on the gravel road between the cabins we'd lived in, worked in, worked through. We stood there post-portraits, post-jazz hands, post-laughter, post-tears, and there were questions, still.Mostly: How do we carry..." more
Monday, September 26, 2016 5:57:26 AM
Beth Kephart wrote a blog post titled Juncture Workshops: One Final Spot Left in Cape May, NJ:
Beth said, "We may still be riding the waves of our Field Notes memoir workshop but we're also eagerly anticipating our time by the Jersey shore, this coming November.We have one spot left in this gorgeous painted lady.Write to us here, if you have interest. ..." more
Thursday, December 29, 2016 2:49:13 PM
Beth Kephart wrote a blog post titled "Nobody reads" and book excellence (beware: multiple titles are herein celebrated):
Beth said, "I shall get to the end of this story momentarily, but I will begin with this: The other day, while running on one of those machines at the gym, I was accompanied by a young friend with whom I most often disagree. We sit on opposite sides of the..." more