Monthly Archives: March 2022

“When his wife had been alive, he had hardly noticed Jessie Morrow; indeed, if possible, he had noticed her even less than he had noticed his wife.”

Posted on March 23, 2022 by Kate Stover

In a 1978 BBC radio program, Barbara Pym said, “Perhaps I’ve been influenced by something I was once told about Proust – that he was said to go over all his characters and make them worse.” I laughed when I … Continue reading →

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“What would happen if one conceptualized a social system as a system of energy?”

Posted on March 10, 2022 by Kate Stover

Here’s a radical idea: The primary responsibility of teachers and leaders is not to issue orders; it’s to release the energy of the people and manage the processes for using that energy to achieve goals. This idea was ahead of … Continue reading →

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“Turn procrastination into rehearsal.”

Posted on March 3, 2022 by Kate Stover

Roy Peter Clark, a senior scholar at the Poynter Institute, describes writers like me when he says that when we’re not writing, we are often doubting ourselves. We feel bad.  Instead, we could think of this period of delay as … Continue reading →

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