Tag: writing
member name: Cynthia C.
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December 13, 2009 04:01 PM EST --
For the past year and a half I've been writing book reviews for trade publications in Documentary Film. I'll be posting some of the archived ones from past issues here on Gather.
Making Documentary . . .
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December 12, 2009 12:22 PM EST --
It's been well over a year since I posted anything on Gather. It was as though, after the election, and Obama actually took the oath of office, I experienced a period of political withdrawal pains. . . .
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October 08, 2006 12:25 PM EDT --
This post is directed to whoever the person is that ranks my articles a "1" whenever I deal with content that offends their sense of propriety (actually, I'm only guessing that's the . . .
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November 06, 2008 08:58 AM EST --
Using the same astute judgment that he utilized for the past 8 years, president bush figured the time was right to start pitching his memoir of his time in the White House to publishers. The fact that . . .
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July 27, 2008 02:11 PM EDT --
It seems like ages ago, but it's been less than 2 months since the bush administration engineered that giant bribe, (OOPS...I meant "economic stimulus package") that added $600 to my checking . . .
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March 24, 2007 10:14 AM EDT --
As one of the earliest members of GATHER (their offices are here in Boston, my hometown) I felt priviledged to have been invited down to their offices when they were in their beta test phase and they were . . .
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August 31, 2006 08:02 AM EDT --
Not only is this possible, if you could read people's minds, I'd bet you would find this is the norm rather than the exception to the rule. Wouldn't you really rather have all the people that . . .
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September 29, 2007 10:27 AM EDT --
It was ironic that on page 10 of todays NYTimes we find the lead story about Jenna Bush, the prez's party girl daughter and twin sister of Barbara, touting her new book about "children of exclusion", . . .
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December 13, 2007 06:34 AM EST --
The green glass ball was the size of a very large grapefruit. It was an odd, sort of warm shade of green with hints of gold and surprisingly heavy, which implies a certain robust quality that may help . . .
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March 21, 2008 09:06 AM EDT --
As our ship of state slowly sinks, leaving most Americans dazed and confused, scurrying for any life boat to help them rescue their mortgages, save their jobs, educate their children, pay for health care, . . .
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July 16, 2006 06:53 AM EDT --
A talented young filmmaker called me the other day to discuss a new project he's developing about the relationship of humans to their dogs. When I'm in Maine next week to teach my class on the . . .
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July 29, 2008 08:28 AM EDT --
Why hatred of the dreaded Liberals of course.
The 58 year old man, Jim D. Adkisson, who hauled his 12 gauge shot gun into a Unitarian Universalist Church on Sunday, opened fire and shot eight . . .
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June 25, 2006 09:32 AM EDT --
There's a new biography out on Timothy Leary by Robert Greenfield. It's reviewed by Luc Sante on the cover of today's New York Times book section. There's a great image of a grinning Leary, . . .
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July 25, 2006 07:15 AM EDT --
My staff thought I'd been kidnapped, or worse. The last time they saw me was when RG picked me up at my office for our first "let's do lunch" date. There is always tittering and speculation . . .
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July 23, 2006 03:02 PM EDT --
RG had his share of intimate female relationships just as I'd been gathering men friends. He got me to confess mine and he told me about his. Telling is one thing, but meeting the competition face . . .
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September 14, 2006 07:19 AM EDT --
How can you really know another person? Sex is one way, but we usually learn very little during sex. Talking is another possibility, but often the words float by, some are grabbed and remembered, others . . .
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October 09, 2006 07:50 AM EDT --
Has anyone ever died in a sauna? That was my first thought as I sat with my bare butt resting on a WAY too small towel. I was the only woman in the group this time. Sitting on the middle level of a 3 tiered . . .
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October 20, 2007 02:26 PM EDT --
The large pink envelope arrived in today's mail. I knew it was a birthday card from my mother. It is part of the ritual, these small gestures that she has always done, her way of showing affection. . . .
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October 28, 2007 08:59 AM EDT --
In my weekly dutiful daughter phone call to my mom, I had to keep my lip buttoned as she waxed poetic about just how wonderful that FEMA is doing so much for all those poor people in California. Mom . . .
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June 15, 2008 10:36 PM EDT --
He called me at the office. It was late on Friday and I knew he held out till the last minute, hoping I'd call him instead. I didn't so he felt compelled. When you've engaged in a love affair . . .
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