Mirka Muse

So here I am, an assistant packer to DS who’s moving to his second apartment. In a few days, when this is done, I’ll be assistant shipper t...

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor. Henry Rollins If you can explain this quotation to me, please...

Well, I’m back and not worse for wear. In fact, I felt rested from no-cooking-dishwashing-driving and all things computer. “Felt,” because ...

While DD plays, I try to stay cool. In more ways than one. Back next week, calm and collected.

...But just for a wee bit. I'm an official chaperon for DD for yet another international piano competition. I take a break from E-...

Well, it is July. But I was also thinking about the other kind of hot . What makes one person’s blog popular? What makes one book zoo...

An old man and a young man were travelling on a train, when the young man asked the old man, “Pardon me, sir, but do you have the time?” ...

When the great Nora Ephron died, the shock was that she died from a long illness she completely hid from the public.  This was the Nora E...

There are stories that come to mind almost fully delineated: the characters, what happened, and how it ended. But most writers say this is ...

 I must fess up here: English is my second language. I grew up in Israel, and while it helped to have a mother who was American and gave me...

When you ask kindergarteners to raise their hands if they are good at painting pictures, almost all would raise their hands. YES, I am! ...

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within it the image of a cathedral.” Antoine de Sa...

Eeeek, I’m having one of those weeks. You know the Jewish definition of a schlemiel- the one who falls on his back and breaks his nose....

*… You've  Got to Make the Morning Last." From “Feeling Groovy,” a Simon & Garfunkel song Some years ago my father marve...

A relative in Israel asked me if I remember Israeli spring. {I do. Mostly, I remember it was too s hort.} No, I haven’t joined the A...

A few weeks ago a friend asked me if I would help a new writer who was about to publish her first book. Could I answer her questions, or ma...

Before I was published, DH used to tell others that I was trying to write. I corrected him time and again. I  wasn't   trying; I was d...

Until my late twenties, I had difficulty with longer projects. Time management was not part of my schooling. If I  couldn't  finish a p...

“ April is the cruellest month. ” T. S. Eliot Why? Do tell, T. S. - and then tell of the extra L you put in there, which my proofreadi...

Or- The Truth About Ghost Writing   Years ago, before I even considered writing for publication, an acquaintance made me an offer...

“I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of."                                Clarence Darrow A writing col...

" Truth is stranger than fiction , but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't." - Mark Tw...