by Pearl Klein | May 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
Often, writer’s block happens to you because somewhere in your work you’ve lied to yourself and your subconscious won’t let you go any further until you’ve gone back, erased the lie, stated the truth and started over. — Jose Rivera, References...
by Pearl Klein | May 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
The unrehearsed kiss expresses passion missing from too many lives. Try kissing someone who suspects it is coming and dreads it is not. Or letting passion like musical theater replace the unsaid inexpressible or overflowing moment in tender action. A kiss like dancing...
by Pearl Klein | May 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
Oh, if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one—! But if life were only moments, Then you’d never know you had one. — Stephen Sondheim, Into the Woods Many people I talk with believe strongly in manifestation. This is the practice of making a thing...
by Pearl Klein | May 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
My imaginary friends when I was 3 years old were two bears, Letsy Bear and Betsy Bear; Letsy married Dot Stott, a dalmatian, and became Letsy Bear Stott. They used to ring the front doorbell because it was one of those old-fashioned turn-keys, and I let them come in....
by Pearl Klein | May 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
I can’t even use it in a sentence. When I open my mouth, I can form the shape and blow a little air through — “Hhhhhhhhh” — but I can’t add a hard consonant without gagging. It all started in 2012. I left my part-time teaching seasonal labor edu-temp...