June
15: 2009: Announcing the 2010 Lake Atitlan Writing Workshop. And...
at long last... a preview of my new novel, Labor Day
March
22, 2009: A vastly simpler life, and the sometimes difficult lessons
of Pie.
March
13, 2009: Losses -- large and small, and (who would have
guessed you'd find this here) a Nasty Funky video.
January
17, 2009: Children coming home and leaving
A kiss from a puppy
(and none from Willie Nelson)
and an update on the Lake Atitlan
Writing Workshop
December
20, 2008: The Ice Storm...
December
3, 2008: Five months on the road, and Thirty Years Later
October
25, 2008: The last days of my writing retreat... The lessons of
swimming... Heading home... (PLUS: Another Mill Valley Memoir Workshop,
My Youngest Son on Television! And another never-before-seen chapter
from my new memoir.)
October
10, 2008: Some thoughts about tough financial times... A preview
of my memoir-in-progress (for mailing
list subscribers only)... And absolutely nothing to add about the
coming election
September
24, 2008: A romantic story, my mother and my breasts, update on
the Lake Atitlan Writing Workshop, and some words about your letters
to me, concerning the election
September
2, 2008: A new memoir
August
10, 2008: Writing in New Hampshire, my British Columbia Road Trip.
And news of the 2009 Lake Atitlan Writing Workshops
And my son
the Marine
.(!)
May
24, 2008: The Real Me (the fifty four year old version)
May
10, 2008: Mother's Day
March
25, 2008: Someone Like Me, But Younger
February
26, 2008: What matters in life?
January
15, 2008: A Storytelling Life
December
13, 2007: Family Christmas in an empty nest
November
15, 2007: A first and final visit with Normal Mailer
November
3, 2007: About desire, fear, and children in far-off places
October
1, 2007: Jane Hirshfield to join Joyce and Bob in Guatemala
August
27, 2007: Reconnecting with Rona -- A Tale of Two Sisters
July
4, 2007: A Good Girl Goes Bad
May
29, 2007: Love is the Best Art of All
May
13, 2007: In Honor of Mothers IV: My Mother at Fifty
(And stories from newsletter subscribers.)
May
9, 2007: In Honor of Mothers III: How It Feels to Be the Mother
of the World's Most Beautiful Baby -- Revisited
April
24, 2007: In Honor of Mothers II: Four Generations
April
15, 2007: In Honor of Mothers I: My Mother's Chutney
April
5, 2007: Revisiting the Past
March
30, 2007: Home from Guatemala
February
5, 2007: A Chat with Norman Mailer
January
11, 2007: Letter from Sammi
January
4, 2007: Happy New Year!
December
20, 2006: Christmas with Charlie
November
26, 2006: The Stories We Tell
November
1, 2006: A Birthday Wish, and More
October
24, 2006: The Ones Who Weren't
September
22, 2006: Happy New Year to Us All
September
13, 2006: Night in the Parking Lot
[I'll be adding
other letters that have been read only by Website Updates mailing
list subscribers very soon. Myrna]
July
21, 2004: The final draft of The Cloud Chamber delivered
April
7, 2004: Max Maynard's 100th birthday celebration
March
18, 2004: Pies, workshops, a new book, and a milestone
January
1, 2004: "In San Marcos, I am known as Feliz."
October
1, 2003: A Writing Life
August
28, 2003: The
home-oriented traveler
February
1, 2003: Basketball, books, and... Broadway?
October
30, 2002: New book, new look
June
26, 2002: The Globetrotters come home
December
12, 2001: Exploring Guatemala (February Retreat Info)
September
22, 2001: Bearing Witness.
September
10, 2001: Farewell... For now.
May
11, 2001: Endings and beginnings.
January
6, 2001: Saying goodbye to Dale.
December
10, 2000: Of children and Uganda.
July
15, 2000: Knees and feet.
January
20, 2000: Searching for rhythm.
October
23, 1999: It's about family.
October
13, 1999: Retreat to Michigan
September
8, 1999: Time for myself
June
16, 1999: Calamities, Catastrophes, Near-Disasters
May
13, 1999: Letters
March
28, 1999: Return from Macedonia
February
24, 1999: Lots of comings and goings
January
27, 1999: Perilous Journeys
January
6, 1999: A year in review
December
16, 1998: New York, New York!
December
3, 1998: A different kind of Christmas
November
21, 1998: Pie Party!!