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...
by Pearl Klein | Apr 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
48 days in a row. Today makes it 49. Had I been on top of the calendar, I might have celebrated the halfway point. Or numbered each post. All I really have in mind is my start date (March 11) and my end date (June 8). What do I know now that I didn’t know...
by Pearl Klein | Apr 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
If I’m going to be a drinker, I’m going to have to be a binge drinker, because I like to feel inebriated as well as take in delicious flavors and I’m trying to maintain my womanish figure despite the negative connotations to “womanish”...
