Mary Cartledgehayes

My favorite sentence of the week: "Some days, I see camels everywhere."

My high school friend Julia Tanner plays with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra. They're currently recording (I'm taking a wild guess here) Christmas music.

Oh, wait, there was another sentence I love that I read last night in the 25 January New Yorker: "I (more…)

I've just taken the grand tour of Author's Guild blogs and learned a great deal on the way. First off, I seem to be timid when it comes to color. Folks are actually using the day-glow oranges and melt-your-fillings green that are offered on some of the templates. But I'm old, Father William, and (more…)

Why, you may ask, am I starting another blog, given that I have 3 active blogs already, 2 blogs that I'm in the process of deleting; and a newsletter option on my website that I rarely use. What purpose can another blog serve?

One purpose is to tell you about books I want you to read, ideas I want you to consider, and causes I want you to embrace. Also, out of plain curiosity I want to see how the Author's Guild blogsite compares to blogger.com, where my other blogs live.

I don't see a way for you to subscribe to this blog -- but, again, I'm new here myself. Like life and writing (even nonfiction), we'll make it up as we go along.