The three writers I wanted to meet were Carole Maso, Lynne Tillman and Peggy Phelan. 我想见的三位作家是卡罗尔·马索，琳恩·蒂尔曼和佩吉·费伦。 These were not famous, best-selling authors, 她们不算是最知名和畅销的作家， but to me, they were wom
The radiance falls on all of us, and we are nothing without each other. 只有和大家团结在一起，每个人才是光芒四射的。 Instead, I flew back to Oregon, 可现实是，我飞回了俄勒冈， and as I watched the evergreens and rain come back into vie
So you see, I'd missed fitting in to just about every category out there: 可以看到我与所有的生活格格不入： daughter, wife, mother, scholar. 作为女儿，作为妻子，作为妈妈，作为学者。 And the dream of being a writer was really kind of
I was thinking about all the ways I'd already screwed my life up. 我在考虑以前把我的生活毁了的各种方式。 Who the hell was I to go to New York City and pretend to be a writer? 那个要去纽约装作是一位作家的我到底是谁？ Who was I? 我是谁？ I&#
The whole time he was talking to me, 整个谈话期间 I sat there smiling and nodding like a numb idiot, 我麻木的像个傻子。 with my arms crossed over my chest, 双手交叉在胸前， while nothing, nothing, nothing came out of my thr
In it are the stories of how many times I've had to reinvent a self from the ruins of my choices, 书里讲述的是我如何在人生选择的废墟中重生的故事。 the stories of how my seeming failures were really just weird-ass portals
On the last night, I gave a big reading at the National Poetry Club. 在最后一天晚上，我在全国诗歌俱乐部做了一场读书会。 And at the end of the reading, 在读书会结束的时候， Katharine Kidde of Kidde, Hoyt And Picard Literary Agency, 凯德公司
So I know TED is about a lot of things that are big, 我知道TED总是谈一些大事 but I want to talk to you about something very small. 但是我想讲一件微不足道的小事 So small, it's a single word. 小到只有一个词 The word is "misf
