Elizabeth Rosner's Blog

• The Forgiveness of Water

  July 21, 2010

  • Twenty-five years ago, while an undergraduate at Stanford, I got a job on campus as a lifeguard, deepening a love of swimming and water that has lasted throughout my life. I took the duties seriously and studied the swimmers with professional vigilance, relieved at the end of each day that no emergency rescue had been required. But the greatest challenge of the job was standing poolside in a ...
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• Two Resurrections in One

  June 2, 2010

  • For many of us, writing--not to mention publishing--may feel like a matter of life and death.  In my case, the past two years have been a period of grappling quite literally with both, and winning two big prizes at once:  my own restored health after breast cancer treatment, and the resurrection of my out-of-print second novel.   Here's the story, in hopes it might inspire others who are ...
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• Getting to Happy

  December 31, 2009

  • Today is the last day of my 40s, and I’ll never be this young again.  It’s the end of a decade that has included my happiest moments as well as my most pain-filled ones.  Standing on the threshold of my 50th birthday, along with everyone else who is looking ahead as well as behind, I’m pausing to reflect on where I’ve been and what I’ve managed to learn along the way. The year ...
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