Tag Archives: Writing Life

What Makes a Word “Real?”
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Posted on June 10, 2014 by

Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. Today we have English professor and linguist Anne Curzan who asks: what makes a word real? Curzan is a collector of slang words, a dissector of colloquialisms and a charter of language evolution. To put … Continue reading →

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An Ode to Envy
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Posted on June 3, 2014 by

Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. Today we have literary critic Parul Sehgal who asks: what is jealousy? What drives it, and why do we secretly love it? No study has ever been able to capture its “loneliness, longevity, grim … Continue reading →

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Cynthia’s Yearlong 50th Birthday Bash–May Update
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Posted on May 29, 2014 by

As I described back in April (you can read the post here), I’m celebrating my 50th birthday with a year of activities and challenges designed to honor this milestone. I’m calling it Cynthia’s Yearlong 50th Birthday Bash, and so far … Continue reading →

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Everyday Moments, Caught in Time
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Posted on May 20, 2014 by

Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. Today we have two-term U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins. He is an English professor at City University of New York, where he has taught for more than 40 years. Accessibility is not a word … Continue reading →

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Cynthia’s Yearlong 50th Birthday Bash–April Update
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Posted on April 24, 2014 by

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was going to celebrate my 50th birthday by planning a year of activities and challenges to honor this milestone. I’m calling it Cynthia’s Yearlong 50th Birthday Bash, and so far, as predicted, … Continue reading →

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The Art of the Deep Yes
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Posted on April 22, 2014 by

Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. Today we have one of my all-time favorite bloggers, the self-proclaimed badass writer, Justine Musk. Actually, I don’t think she needs to tell anyone she’s a badass. We can read (or watch) her work … Continue reading →

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Celebrating Life on the Spectrum
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Posted on April 10, 2014 by

Back when I inherited Storied Nights: An Evening of Spoken Word in late May 2013, I might have had no clue what I was going to do for programming in the short-term, but I knew I wanted to do an … Continue reading →

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Adventures in Twitter Fiction
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Posted on April 1, 2014 by

Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. Today we’re watching Andrew Fitzgerald who is shaping new ways for Twitter and writers to work together. In the 1930s, broadcast radio introduced an entirely new form of storytelling; today, micro-blogging platforms like Twitter are … Continue reading →

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The Stories We Tell Ourselves
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Posted on March 25, 2014 by

Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. Today we’re watching film director Shekhar Kapur who asks where does creative inspiration spring from? He talks about the stories we tell ourselves and shares a powerful way to unleash your inner storyteller. Kapur, … Continue reading →

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Poems of War, Peace, Women, Power
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Posted on March 18, 2014 by

Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. Today we’re watching poet Suheir Hammad perform two spine-tingling spoken-word pieces: What I Will and break (clustered) — meditations on war and peace, on women and power. She blends the stories and sounds of … Continue reading →

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