by Lynne Weiss | Aug 14, 2021 | What I'm Thinking
To Travel or Not I am looking forward to a trip to Istanbul, planned for mid-October 2021. And yet we wonder whether travel means exposure to the Delta variant or other variants that might be even more pernicious. A recent episode of NPR’s 1A discussed this...
by Lynne Weiss | Nov 11, 2019 | What I'm Thinking
James Clear is a source of many smart ideas about productivity, habit formation, and personal change. The Myth of Creative Inspiration: Great Artists Don’t Wait for Motivation The work of top creatives isn’t dependent upon motivation or creative inspiration....
by Lynne Weiss | Apr 20, 2019 | What I'm Thinking
A New Word for That Feeling When Travel Makes Everything New – aeon – Pocket There is, of course, so much to learn when any of us visit a place for the first time and it would be easy to assume that information passes in one direction only, from the host...
by Lynne Weiss | Sep 29, 2018 | What I'm Thinking
https://writinginawomansvoice.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-call-apersonal-essay-by-lynneweiss.html The Call A Personal Essay by Lynne Weiss Shortly before my son began his first semester of college in New York City in 2011, we used our family cell phone plan to get our...
by Lynne Weiss | Jan 8, 2017 | What I'm Thinking
The very engaging production of A Doll’s House at Boston’s Huntington Theater got me thinking about Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s essay “The Solitude of Self.” Stanton was the primary organizer of the Seneca Falls convention on the rights of...
by Lynne Weiss | Jan 2, 2017 | What I'm Thinking
New Year’s Eve included The Scottsboro Boys by SpeakEasy Stage at Boston Center for the Arts. Scottsboro was written by John Kander and Fred Ebb, the same team who created Cabaret and Chicago. This was a terrific production, funny at times, but in the end, sad...
