by Pearl Klein | May 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
Who you are is what you do. Or it isn’t. I’ve wondered about this for a long time. I used to feel sadness about people I knew who had started out wanting to do one thing with their lives and ended up not doing it but doing something else. Were they different people?...
by Pearl Klein | May 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
When someone dies, we tell a lot of stories. We tell stories about our encounters with the dead person, the jokes they told, the way they saw the world. These stories help us hold on to our memories and keep the person alive. We also tell stories about what they would...
by Pearl Klein | May 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
My friend and former student Mark Chambers died on 4/20/15 at 4:20pm. He was 61 and had been living with ALS for three years. One summer day fourteen years ago, he photographed me as I shaved my head and got a henna tattoo. He also took one of the best portraits of my...
by Pearl Klein | Apr 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
From 1993 to 2009, I taught English at community colleges in the Puget Sound region. Once in a while I run into or communicate with a former student, though I would really only say I made friends with one or two of them. Mark Chambers took my poetry workshop twice....
by Pearl Klein | Apr 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
As a copywriter, I have as much a need as any online entrepreneur to create vivid, engaging language that communicates the value of what I do to a public eager to buy my services. As an expert, it can be difficult to ask for help from another writer. If I were a...
