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August 3, 2016August 3, 2016 rebeccakuder

Lynda Barry, Omega Institute workshop (scratching the surface)

I can’t yet write deeply/fully about my experience at Lynda Barry’s WRITING THE UNTHINKABLE Omega Institute workshop last week, because it’s all still coalescing, and it’s summertime, and I just don’t have the mind space word space right now. But I wrote a message to my former students and couple colleagues, because the message does scratch the surface (cliche, … Continue reading Lynda Barry, Omega Institute workshop (scratching the surface)

April 26, 2016April 26, 2016 rebeccakuder

Experiments with raw

I’m trying experiments where I don’t overthink some of the writing I release into the world. Where I don’t polish until it’s as perfect as my ego can make it (perfection is overrated and a lie, anyway.). This (below) is a raw something I wrote recently (some even tonight) and I will soon type it onto handmade paper … Continue reading Experiments with raw

April 20, 2016April 20, 2016 rebeccakuder

“How not to buy more babies”

In my computer files, today I found something I had written in June 2011 for one of my daughter’s caretakers. The title of the file is “how not to buy more babies.” Good timing. Last night my husband and I were reminiscing about one of our daughter’s babies which we called “Big Baby.” Big Baby was … Continue reading “How not to buy more babies”

September 1, 2015September 1, 2015 rebeccakuder

Some thoughts on why I write personal essays

Here’s a statement I wrote last week for a grant application. I’m new-ish to personal essay, so it feels weird to proclaim anything about it (because I keep learning what it is!) but this piece describes some of my process and reasons for writing personal essay, so I thought it was worth posting here. It’s slightly edited toward blogginess. Cheers! *** … Continue reading Some thoughts on why I write personal essays

June 26, 2015 rebeccakuder

How It Felt To Me

In her essay, “On Keeping a Notebook,” Joan Didion writes: “…perhaps it never did snow that August in Vermont…maybe no one else felt the ground hardening and summer already dead even as we pretended to bask in it, but that was how it felt to me, and it might as well have snowed, could have snowed, … Continue reading How It Felt To Me

June 24, 2014June 24, 2014 rebeccakuder

Platform-building (A guest post from David B. Coe)

[For this post, I’m pleased to welcome the writer David B. Coe as my first guest blogger. David is among my favorite colleagues at the Antioch University Midwest Individualized MA program, where he works with graduate creative writing students. He’s a wonderful guide; I always learn something when I witness his interactions with our students. As part of his blog … Continue reading Platform-building (A guest post from David B. Coe)

April 16, 2014April 16, 2014 rebeccakuder

A live encounter with Jon Langford’s Here Be Monsters

On April 9, I had the pleasure of seeing Jon Langford and Skull Orchard rock the stained glass out of Newport, Kentucky’s Southgate House Revival. (Okay, I’m exaggerating. The windows are still there, or they were when I left the church/club, as evidenced by this photo.) While waiting for the bill at a pizza place nearby, I worried that … Continue reading A live encounter with Jon Langford’s Here Be Monsters

December 25, 2013December 25, 2013 rebeccakuder

Hoarders (and my recurring dream)

I just read an interesting story about piece of history owned by a psychologist, Dr. Barry Lubetkin, who treats hoarders. From this New York Times article: “A couple of weeks ago, Dr. Lubetkin was idly trawling the Internet for information on Homer and Langley Collyer, urban hoarders known in the 1930s and ’40s as the Hermits … Continue reading Hoarders (and my recurring dream)

December 4, 2013 rebeccakuder

“Wait, pretend that…”

I know it’s good practice for writing (and living!) to slow down and listen to children. Their work (in my daughter’s case, drama and storytelling, the elements of theatre, almost every sentence beginning with “wait, pretend that…”) is as important to them as our work (making dinner, job stuff) is to us. This morning, keeping … Continue reading “Wait, pretend that…”

August 16, 2013May 5, 2021 rebeccakuder

Breast-shaped Lunchbox

Packing school lunch is on my mind again. Much less angst this year, in part because my daughter’s taste in food has recently expanded to include much more variety–even salad! Things mixed together! Maybe making lunches will be easier this year. Here’s what I wrote on the topic last fall, from much shakier ground. Enjoy! … Continue reading Breast-shaped Lunchbox