September, 2011

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Driven to Distraction

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

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Women in Saudi Arabia just won the right to vote, but are threatened with whip lashings if they attempt to drive to the polls to exercise that right.

Why do women there face such an uphill battle to get behind the wheel?
Is it ENVY of women that fuels this continuing injustice?  What do you think?

As tweeted by Christiane Amanpour of ABC News,
‘A story from Absurdistan.’

‘The Writer’s Disease’

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

writingpastCool post on ambition & ENVY from Douglas Eby. Lots of insights, including mention of a title from the 90’s we haven’t yet explored but will — Bonnie Friedman’s Writing Past Dark: ENVY, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer’s Life.

Friedman calls ENVY ‘the writer’s disease.’  Yup. 🙂

Thanks to Kim Carlson, who posted Eby’s work on Facebook.