Sophfronia’s Blog
Kind Words
A blog about what I find amazing, smart, beautiful, or just plain fun.
What Happened On June 21, 2018
What happened on June 21, 2018? A lot! And you'll get to know so much of it thanks to a fascinating project launched by Essay Daily. The editors of the website devoted to a particular form of creative nonfiction, the essay, asked writers from all over to write about their day [...]
‘The Write of Your Life’ Sept, 2019
via 'The Write of Your Life' Sept, 2019 The cat is officially out of the bag: I'm teaching a very special writers retreat in Italy next year! If you have an adventurous spirit and a desire to inject renewed energy into your writing life, consider this my personal invitation. I [...]
Discovering the Amazing Pauli Murray
For the “learn something new every day” files… My friend, Yale lecturer Stuart Semmel This week I connected with a college classmate, Stuart Semmel, who lives on the campus of Yale University. His wife, Professor Tina Lu, is Head of College of Pauli Murray College and he’s Associate [...]
The Nature of Everyday Hope
June is here and once again I feel perched on the edge of something. School will be out in a few weeks for both my son and my teacher husband. When I think of the long sunny days before us I see possibility and the wonder of how we might [...]
The Best Laid Plans
"The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley..." --Robert Burns, "To a Mouse" Oh yes…that planning thing. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, sometimes both in the same day. Tuesday proved to [...]
About Faith: What I Want You to Know
Sometimes an interview question hits home. When it does the question becomes much more than a question. It's a request for depth, for clarity, for the utmost authenticity. It wants to know what's inside you that you can offer up with the most light possible. It's asking what you want [...]
A Diet for the Soul
Can you pity a bad/mean/evil character? This question came up in a book group discussion of my novel Unforgivable Love. I responded by quoting Albus Dumbledore in the second Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows film, where he tells Harry to pity the living and most of all pity [...]
My Favorite Books of 2017
I'm grateful for Goodreads. Before this lovely book-oriented social media site came into the world my reading life was pretty scattered. Sometimes I tried to keep written books lists but most of the time I really didn't know how much or how little I'd read in any given year. When [...]
