Category archives: Creative Work
What Are You?: The Fine Art of Labels
One of my aunts called me last week, just to catch up. She asked me about my academic status (I went AWOL), and as I tried to explain my fluid situation to her, she replied: “What are you exactly? I… continue reading »
The road to done is paved with good distractions
I’m going to work on my fiction. That sentence summarizes one of my major writing-related goals this year. The goals, if you want to get into details, are to publish (not just write) 3 short stories and participate in this… continue reading »
Perfection is a complicated journey
I just saw Leonard Bernstein’s Omnibus lecture on Beethoven’s Symphony no. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 (listen to it here). The lecture was very moving, to say the least. Bernstein took Beethoven’s initial rejected drafts of the symphony and… continue reading »