Connie May Fowler's Blog

• My Mom and The President's: Education, Education, Education!

  July 21, 2009

  • I’m a sucker for an inspired speech and President Obama’s address to the NAACP last week knocked me flat. When I thought I could be moved no further, he reduced me to uncommon tears: "I don't come from a lot of wealth. I got into my share of trouble as a kid. My life could easily have taken a turn for the worse. But that mother of mine gave me love; she pushed me, and cared about my ...
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• Reflections: Working wIth the Afghan Women's Writing Project

  July 13, 2009

  • Since beginning my work with the Afghan Women’s Writing Project, I have struggled with various manifestations of disconnection.As I read the E-mails, essays, and poems penned by these wonderful and brave women, news feeds from Afghanistan flash across my computer screen. The offensive in Helmand is the first step in what has become America's second Afghan war . . . A 24-year-old Illinois ...
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• The Writer's Life, or Creativity's Child: Divine Madness

  June 5, 2009

  • It seems to this author that the writing life grows ever more complex, even if you live on the edge of the world in the middle of nowhere, like me.  Not too long ago, I resented the chores attached to website design and maintenance, book publicity and tours, interviews and essays, ink-buying and paper jams.  These details piled up like cicada skeletons in a Kentucky field and so did my anxiety ...
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