Writing Pep Talk from Me to Me
OMG I do NOT feel like writing today. What is that all about?? What is this resistance? Write the chapter, Lisa. Write 1500 words and...
Still Alice Discussion Guide for Readers living with Early Onset and/or Early Stage Alzheimer’s
I created this guide back in 2007, just before self-publishing STILL ALICE and selling copies from the trunk of my car. I was blogging...
From a Cucumber to a Cure
I met Arthur Cohen and his wife Janet at last year's Compassionate Care ALS gala in Boston. We sat next to each other and chatted...
ALS Film Review
So Much, So Fast This was the first documentary about ALS that I watched. An inspirational and heartbreaking story about...
Notes from My Writing Journal: Walking with Elise
Chapter 7, baby!! Okay, what happens next? We need Karina and Richard in the same room again. Actually, I probably need a chapter about...
Notes from My Writing Journal: The Woman at the Door
I found these pages from my writing journal, a scene from EVERY NOTE PLAYED that never even made it into the first draft. It has its...
Stephen Hawking, 1942-2018
When Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (ALS) at the age of 21, he was told he had two years left to live....
Remembering Chris Engstrom
I met Chris Engstrom at his parents’ house on Cape Cod. He was my age, handsome, scrawny, his strangled voice mostly unintelligible. He...
A Day in the Writing Life: Chapter 9 of EVERY NOTE PLAYED
From my writing journal…. Okay, clearly I need some time with no kids to bang out some chapters. 9am-noon isn’t enough right now. I’m...
The Oscars
It's Oscars season. I love movies and try to catch as many of the Oscar-nominated films as I can before the Academy Awards. So far, I've...
