Comments for Ethel Rohan http://ethelrohan.com Mon, 14 May 2012 21:40:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Comment on Thank You, Beautiful Readers by Editing and haircuts | Samuel Snoek-Brown http://ethelrohan.com/2012/02/thank-you-beautiful-readers/#comment-2531 Editing and haircuts | Samuel Snoek-Brown Mon, 14 May 2012 21:40:36 +0000 http://ethelrohan.com/?p=2232#comment-2531 [...] ago, author Ethel Rohan (whose beautiful book Cut Through the Bone you all should buy), made a comment in her blog about her recent haircut. “I cut off most of my hair, twelve inches of length and a crazy [...] [...] ago, author Ethel Rohan (whose beautiful book Cut Through the Bone you all should buy), made a comment in her blog about her recent haircut. “I cut off most of my hair, twelve inches of length and a crazy [...]

]]> Comment on Words by Andy Roe http://ethelrohan.com/2012/05/words/#comment-2521 Andy Roe Sun, 13 May 2012 19:16:30 +0000 http://ethelrohan.com/?p=2357#comment-2521 I wish I'd been at that reading (yet another reason why I miss living in San Francisco so much). I'm about halfway through Wild. Amazing book. I kind of don't want it to end so I'm taking my time. Such brave, beautiful (and inspiring) writing. I wish I’d been at that reading (yet another reason why I miss living in San Francisco so much).

I’m about halfway through Wild. Amazing book. I kind of don’t want it to end so I’m taking my time.

Such brave, beautiful (and inspiring) writing.

]]> Comment on Honest by Ethel Rohan http://ethelrohan.com/2012/05/honest/#comment-2519 Ethel Rohan Sun, 13 May 2012 14:49:27 +0000 http://ethelrohan.com/?p=2344#comment-2519 Marie, how wonderful to hear from you. Thank you so much for visiting and taking the time to read and comment. I wish you the best of luck with your current project. Perhaps try to push through the 'arms-length' descriptions to the 'in life'? I suspect such writing will prove even more cathartic and fruitful. Often, where we don't want to go in the work is exactly where we should go. Warm regards, Ethel. Marie, how wonderful to hear from you. Thank you so much for visiting and taking the time to read and comment. I wish you the best of luck with your current project. Perhaps try to push through the ‘arms-length’ descriptions to the ‘in life’? I suspect such writing will prove even more cathartic and fruitful. Often, where we don’t want to go in the work is exactly where we should go.

Warm regards,

Ethel.

]]> Comment on Honest by Ethel Rohan http://ethelrohan.com/2012/05/honest/#comment-2518 Ethel Rohan Sun, 13 May 2012 14:44:12 +0000 http://ethelrohan.com/?p=2344#comment-2518 Sara, thank you so much for this beautiful note and such wonderful words of encouragement. I'm truly touched. I hope all is well with you. Happy Mother's Day! Thanks again. Sara, thank you so much for this beautiful note and such wonderful words of encouragement. I’m truly touched.

I hope all is well with you. Happy Mother’s Day!

Thanks again.

]]> Comment on Honest by Sara Crowley http://ethelrohan.com/2012/05/honest/#comment-2513 Sara Crowley Sat, 12 May 2012 23:09:17 +0000 http://ethelrohan.com/?p=2344#comment-2513 Congrats, Ethel. I read your story and thought it very fine. And I read this blog post and just feel that somehow that conversation with your mother, on some level, *is* real. Also, "...here I go again, telling another story about the loss of a mother." - that may be one of those stories that does need telling and retelling. There is power in your words, Ethel, and it is the good, honest, strong kind. Keep on keeping on. X Congrats, Ethel. I read your story and thought it very fine. And I read this blog post and just feel that somehow that conversation with your mother, on some level, *is* real.
Also, “…here I go again, telling another story about the loss of a mother.” – that may be one of those stories that does need telling and retelling. There is power in your words, Ethel, and it is the good, honest, strong kind. Keep on keeping on. X

]]> Comment on Honest by Nettie http://ethelrohan.com/2012/05/honest/#comment-2512 Nettie Sat, 12 May 2012 21:49:53 +0000 http://ethelrohan.com/?p=2344#comment-2512 Look forward to seeing you soon :) x Look forward to seeing you soon :) x

]]> Comment on Words by tanita http://ethelrohan.com/2012/05/words/#comment-2511 tanita Sat, 12 May 2012 18:11:24 +0000 http://ethelrohan.com/?p=2357#comment-2511 Oh, my GOODNESS. I was a teensy bit terrified to read this book, because I LOVE SUGAR. She is a minor deity, a tiny patron saint, and I was afraid of a.) knowing her name and b.) somehow finding out that her fiction missed the mark when her facts are always dead on. In retrospect, all of the above was very silly thinking. She's amazing. She's bound to have written an amazing book. And yay, you, for getting it before me!! Now I must fly -- panting -- Oh, my GOODNESS.
I was a teensy bit terrified to read this book, because I LOVE SUGAR. She is a minor deity, a tiny patron saint, and I was afraid of a.) knowing her name and b.) somehow finding out that her fiction missed the mark when her facts are always dead on.

In retrospect, all of the above was very silly thinking.

She’s amazing. She’s bound to have written an amazing book. And yay, you, for getting it before me!! Now I must fly — panting –

]]> Comment on Honest by Marie Marshall http://ethelrohan.com/2012/05/honest/#comment-2507 Marie Marshall Sat, 12 May 2012 06:34:48 +0000 http://ethelrohan.com/?p=2344#comment-2507 First of all please accept my congratulations. I found what you wrote about your mother and your imagining telling her your news profoundly touching and poignant. By coincidence I have just opened a work-in-progress file for written pieces about memory, and have started one about my late mother. Because we were never close, what I have written about her largely consists of dream images, descriptions of photographs, etc, rather than descriptions of her 'in life' or conversations; by this I hope to convey to readers our arms-length relationship. Although coming to alienation from a different angle, I truly recognise the yearning to be able to talk to her, to tell her the things in my life of which I am proud, and to hear her approval, praise, and shared delight. M __________ Marie Marshall author/poet/editor Scotland http://mairibheag.com http://kvennarad.wordpress.com First of all please accept my congratulations.

I found what you wrote about your mother and your imagining telling her your news profoundly touching and poignant. By coincidence I have just opened a work-in-progress file for written pieces about memory, and have started one about my late mother. Because we were never close, what I have written about her largely consists of dream images, descriptions of photographs, etc, rather than descriptions of her ‘in life’ or conversations; by this I hope to convey to readers our arms-length relationship. Although coming to alienation from a different angle, I truly recognise the yearning to be able to talk to her, to tell her the things in my life of which I am proud, and to hear her approval, praise, and shared delight.

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Marie Marshall
author/poet/editor
Scotland
http://mairibheag.com
http://kvennarad.wordpress.com

]]> Comment on Honest by Ethel Rohan http://ethelrohan.com/2012/05/honest/#comment-2503 Ethel Rohan Fri, 11 May 2012 12:55:16 +0000 http://ethelrohan.com/?p=2344#comment-2503 Hi Louise, Thanks so much for taking time away from your edits to visit and comment. I'm sorry that you, too, know the long goodbye of Alzheimer's. Thank you, the experience was real in its own way and it was a good and healing thing. Best of luck with the novel revisions! And thanks again. Hi Louise,

Thanks so much for taking time away from your edits to visit and comment. I’m sorry that you, too, know the long goodbye of Alzheimer’s. Thank you, the experience was real in its own way and it was a good and healing thing. Best of luck with the novel revisions! And thanks again.

]]> Comment on Honest by Ethel Rohan http://ethelrohan.com/2012/05/honest/#comment-2502 Ethel Rohan Fri, 11 May 2012 12:52:51 +0000 http://ethelrohan.com/?p=2344#comment-2502 Thanks, Nettie. I booked my flight: June 7 through June 27. I look forward to seeing you xoxo Thanks, Nettie. I booked my flight: June 7 through June 27. I look forward to seeing you xoxo

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