Dear Friends – I have just finished Nathan Englander’s most recent short story collection, THIS IS WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ANNE FRANK, and it’s a brilliant, daring, rewarding, read. Englander is a master short story writer, by which I mean he can do things with the form, that make a short … Continue reading Sunday night question: What do you do when you’re not that great? July 7th 2013
Category: Popular Culture
story time sunday, a grimm brothers’ reboot, June 30th 2013
Dear friends -- Closing out June with a familiar story, with a slightly new angle..... I just wish someone would kill my boss. I wish someone would just throw him against a wall until his slimy guts pour out with whatever blood he’s got in his disgusting little body. Yeah, I love him that much. … Continue reading story time sunday, a grimm brothers’ reboot, June 30th 2013
magic things: a round up. Sunday, June 23rd 2013
dear friends -- the world is a weird, wacky, sometimes horrible, but also sometimes wondrous place. Take wood for example. A tree falls down, but then it turns out to be a rare and valuable tree, called a yew. A yew is both flexible and super-strong and you can make amazing archery bows out of … Continue reading magic things: a round up. Sunday, June 23rd 2013
Story Time Sunday gallery edition: does the Happy Show make me happy? yes, no, and I’m not sure
I have a confession to make. I tend to resist all things Austrian because of a terrible set of experiences my husband L and I had in Vienna many years ago. As a result, I don't like Austrian food, and I don't like Austrian music. Hitler was Austrian, and that worries me. Although, Arthur Schnitzler … Continue reading Story Time Sunday gallery edition: does the Happy Show make me happy? yes, no, and I’m not sure
whew! Story Time Sunday May 19th 2013
Dear friends of the unreal -- Sometimes reality bites. This has been a hard month for us over at Magically Real HQ, culminating in an auto collision, that has left us scared but safe. Thank goodness at these times for family, friends and strangers. Family members -- biological and choice-ical -- who send cards, show … Continue reading whew! Story Time Sunday May 19th 2013
Story time sunday – with a little help from our friends — YET ANOTHER NEXT BIG THING — May 5th 2013
once upon a time we all needed help. a friend needed help because she didn't have a website of her own and I needed help because I had a sick spouse in the hospital and didn't have anything new to post. so thank goodness for friends. friends who write, and friends who are writers who … Continue reading Story time sunday – with a little help from our friends — YET ANOTHER NEXT BIG THING — May 5th 2013
story time sunday on monday, April 29th 2013
Once upon a time there was a woman who loved German. First she had been a girl who loved French and she remained that person for all her life. But when she got older she got interested in those big words that you can only make in German like Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung (speed limit), and Kaufhaus (store). … Continue reading story time sunday on monday, April 29th 2013
Story time Sunday, April 21st, 2013 “It’s all poetry”
One upon a time there were two brothers.No, not Jacob and Esau. And for heaven's sake not Abel and Cain!And no, not the Wachowski Brothers.No. These were two brothers living in late 18th Century Germany (well, not Germany yet, more like the remnants of the Holy Roman Empire).No, not the Brothers Grimm.The guys I am … Continue reading Story time Sunday, April 21st, 2013 “It’s all poetry”
midweek magic — genius girls making games with twine and showing us how– March 27th 2013
Dear Friends of Magically Real -- The world is filled with unsung heroes, and under-appreciated genii. It is a thrill to discover them and glimpse the workings of art-forms that you never really knew existed, and to get a nicely heaping spoonful of humility, when you encounter talented folks who can do deep, amazing, revolutionary … Continue reading midweek magic — genius girls making games with twine and showing us how– March 27th 2013
Sunday Special Edition: getting it right side up… March 17th 2013
Dear Friends – How can we talk in a fresh way about the extreme socio-economic inequities that plague our globe in the 21st century? Or better, how do we show them to ourselves and each other in ways that make us stop, think, wonder, ask? I would like to say that it is easy for … Continue reading Sunday Special Edition: getting it right side up… March 17th 2013
Stephanie Barbé Hammer Writing (Un) Real 