by Monica Emerich | Mar 28, 2019 | Scribal Affair, A Blog
Write because… You need it, like air The world needs a sane voice New ideas are the engine of change Change needs to be positive That trip you took around Wisconsin eating cheese will make people laugh Laughter is sorely missing in the world A friend needs...
by Monica Emerich | Sep 19, 2017 | Craft, Culture, Scribal Affair, A Blog
Happy, intense absorption in any work, which is to be brought as near to perfection as possible, this is a state of being with God, and the men who have not known it have missed life itself.’ – D. H. Lawrence Oh, my. How has work become drudgery for so...
by Monica Emerich | Jun 25, 2017 | Creative Writing, Inspiration, Scribal Affair, A Blog
You know the feeling, fellow writer. You’ve done all the right things. She wanted you up by 5 a.m., before the dogs rose even, before the husband stopped snoring, before the neighbors rolled out their trash cans, and, by God, you did it, day after day. This is...
by Monica Emerich | Aug 28, 2014 | Culture, Scribal Affair, A Blog, Sustainability
Sustainability, as I tell students, is about the perseverance of hope through the manifestation of change. I recently returned from my first journey to the American South, to Mississippi, a place I’d regarded as one with as many tears in its cultural canvas as a...
by Monica Emerich | Feb 11, 2013 | Scribal Affair, A Blog
It’s a big word, “movement.” It conjures up rhizomatic connections of like-mindedness, of collective spirit in motion toward a common goal or vision. It might be in the best interest of organizations that brand themselves as LOHAS to describe LOHAS as a movement...
by Monica Emerich | Sep 27, 2012 | Scribal Affair, A Blog
I won a writing contest in September of 2012. As my jaw bounced up and off of the stage when the emcee announced my novel’s title, my first thought was of me thirty years before shelving that manuscript thinking “everyone wants to be a writer.”...
