Sharon Hewitt Rawlette, PhD

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Month: November 2013

  • A Matrix Poem

    A Matrix Poem

    Lately, I’ve been playing around with creating a poem that reads two ways. All poems, of course, can be understood in multiple ways, but I wanted one with words that could actually be read in two different orders–and make just as much sense in each. Early on, I came up with the idea of arranging the…

    Sharon Rawlette

    November 22, 2013
    Language, Poetry, Writing
    conjugation, grammar, matrix poetry, poetry, writing
  • Washing Dishes

    Washing Dishes

    Some days in my life are so full it feels like I’ll never get everything done if I don’t use every spare second. If the cornbread muffins are going to take 12 minutes to cook, that’s 12 minutes I can spend grading papers. And if one of those papers is taking a long time to…

    Sharon Rawlette

    November 20, 2013
    Daily Life, psychology
    chores, cleaning, dishwashing, relaxing, time management
  • The Tears of Men

    The Tears of Men

    From Pat Conroy’s Beach Music: American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our lives eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no…

    Sharon Rawlette

    November 14, 2013
    Book Reviews, psychology
    Brian Doyle, crying, emotion, men, Pat Conroy, tears
  • A Gossiper of the Imaginary

    A Gossiper of the Imaginary

    “When you’re a novelist, you’re a gossiper of the imaginary.” -Jane Smiley, winner of the Pulitzer Prize It’s been awhile since I’ve written any fiction. Sometimes I think I’m too analytical to do a good job of it. I am, after all, a philosopher by training, and philosophy requires thinking very systematically, and favoring rigor…

    Sharon Rawlette

    November 10, 2013
    Writing
    creativity, fiction, Jane Smiley, memoir, Meredith Maran, novels, Why We Write, writing
  • The New Domesticity

    The New Domesticity

    I began Emily Matchar’s Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity with excitement. Matchar’s book, released in May 2013, reports on the “generation of smart, highly educated young people [who] are spending their time knitting, canning jam, baking cupcakes, gardening, and more (and blogging about it, of course).” As the jacket copy says, “Some are…

    Sharon Rawlette

    November 2, 2013
    Book Reviews, Homesteading
    books, cooking, domesticity, Emily Matchar, feminism, gardening, Generation Y, hipster culture, homemaking, homesteading, Homeward Bound, knitting, self-sufficiency, tomatoes, women’s movement

Sharon Hewitt Rawlette, PhD

  • About
  • Blog
  • Books
    • Beyond Death
    • The Source and Significance of Coincidences
    • The Feeling of Value
    • The Supreme Victory of the Heart
  • Events
  • Home
  • Interviews
  • Memoir
  • Scholarship
  • Twitter

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