by mylinhshattan | Apr 14, 2017 | Bookshelf, On Life
This spring cats are everywhere, in my reading, on my whiteboard, in illustrations.  I came across Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot in Haslams, a sprawling old book store in St. Petersburg, Florida.  The subject didn’t appeal... 
by mylinhshattan | Apr 23, 2015 | On Education, On Literature, On Writing, Toolbox
If you want to write, study English. If you want to write well, study literature. Francine Prose shares this about writing. One essential and telling difference between learning from a style manual and learning from literature is that any how-to book will, almost by... 
by mylinhshattan | Mar 21, 2015 | On Education, On Life, On Literature
Freaky Friday is here: it’s the first day of spring and there’s a snow storm in Connecticut. We’re just back from a blustery cold visit to NYC. My teen daughter and I took our first trip, three days and two nights, just us. We watched...