St Louis Post Dispatch
Sunday, Dec 2, the St Louis Post Dispatch will run a piece in its A&E section that I wrote about reading as I was growing up. Keep an eye out for it. I'll post a link when it's available.
Here's the LINK.
Ridley
Here's the LINK.
Ridley
posted by Ridley at 2:15 PM
5 Comments:
Yes, we will read it for sure...
I'm still looking for someone to bounce ideas off of like you said you did with Dave Barry(@ prin talk last month). I'm half way through a young adult novel which is 'fraction' like Mitchner wrote, but find myself struggling to finish it.
It isn't as long as his stuff, but historical fiction should be close or similar to your crime works?
This is my first book and my fire is stoked to get this book done soon. http://cessnet.mysite.com
Mike
Keep writing!
Great Story Ridley! Hey...I know what you are going through. Both my parents suffered massive strokes and I took care of them.
My father's mind took a long time to disappear. He had two brain tumors in his head, and the doctors said that slowly one day...they would be so big, they would lean on the back of his neck and stop him from breathing.
So, I watched him...watch HIMSELF lose his own mind, and the frustration it caused him. Yes, I watched him go mad....
Now, my mother on the other hand could not talk...after her stroke, but she understood every single word said to her up until the last minute she died, choking on her own mucus.
But the doctors insisted she was brain dead...what a fight that was, I can assure you.
"Hey" I said. "I KNOW brain-dead" I had a father that had brain cancer.." but they were determined to not beleive me.
Nevertheless...there are moments by some grace of GOD that they do come back into reality...thank god you were there when your father came back....
Don't be surprised he does it again.
What a great gift both your parents gave you...and look what they produced!
My mother gave me a complete set of Mark Twain given to her by her father...and my grandfather gave me a subsription to National Geographic.
Prince and the Pauper started me on my love of reading.
And I never missed an issue of National...from 1953=2000, I read them all.
And now, somewhere there is a mother or father reading Peter Pan by Ridley and Dave...before bed.
And some child will someday become the writer that says...
"My first book was about Peter Pan...
While he is excepting his "prize" And that's how we pass it on.
Anyway...thanks again for sharing that story. It helps, doesn't it?
Great read, Ridley. Very touching. My parents didn't read to me much, but my wife and I remedied that with our daughters growing up. I hope when they grow up (they are well on their way) they have fond memories of reading.
Thanks
Ridley,
This article is beautiful, and it strikes a lot of chords. Thank you for sharing this.
By the way, I remember my mother reading that same bit to me when I was small, about the bird sharpening its beak. I never knew where it came from.
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