Nancy Slonim Aronie
Writing from the Heart: A pretty face will fade
I swim down at the Mansion House almost every day, and in order to get out of the pool, I have to climb up...
Writing from the Heart: ‘Middlemarch’ redux
Dear everyone who read my last column about the classic book “Middlemarch” –– for those of you who didn’t read it (my column, not...
Writing from the Heart: Have you read ‘Middlemarch’?
You know in that book review section of the New York Times, the interview with a best-selling author? I always read them. When they...
Writing from the Heart: Just yell, ‘Chicken!’
Joel and I were walking along State Road right near our house. We only have to be on the main road for about a...
Writing from the Heart: Whatja get, whatja get?
It’s Christmas Envy time again. I know over the years I’ve complained about how left out I felt as a kid, how on Christmas...
Writing from the Heart: Fashionista
It makes sense that we are made up of many parts, and that those parts are all cohabiting under the one roof of our...
Writing from the Heart: Heart smart
I teach writing workshops and sometimes I start by saying, “We’re alchemists. We can turn hurt into gold. We can dance it, we can...
Writing from the Heart: Where should we begin?
A few months ago, a friend gave me Esther Perel’s party game, Where Should We Begin? It's basically a bunch of cards with questions...
Writing from the Heart: For God’s sake, it’s Sunday
I’ve been thinking a lot about death these days. Maybe it's the dry and curling leaves on the side of the road. Maybe it's...
Writing from the Heart: Special healing powers
It's not just that my major addiction is candy that makes Halloween my favorite holiday, it’s the dressing-up part. It’s such a great excuse...
Writing from the Heart: Interview with self and friends
One of the only sections of the New York Times Sunday paper I read is the book review. And one of the only parts...
Writing from the Heart: De-rustifying
I thought I would never lose it. I thought once you could sing you would always be able to sing. I know I have...
Writing from the Heart: Steak out
I have always wanted to be a vegetarian.
Not one of those rigid, announcing at a dinner party “oh no thank you I don't eat...
Writing from the Heart: Perception and perspective
Before my friend Richard retired from teaching at a fancy college, he was a consultant for a big firm where he worked with the...
Writing from the Heart: Chances
Yesterday I was invited to a book talk at the Hebrew Center in Vineyard Haven. My cousin, the author (whom I only found out...
Writing from the Heart: To the heart of writing
I'm reading Carol Gilligan's brilliant book, “In a Human Voice.” It’s been 40 years since her landmark tome, “In a Different Voice,” the book...
Writing from the Heart: MVP
Some years ago, I was one of three judges at the Chilmark library for a children's poetry contest. There were 40 entries, and after...
Writing from the Heart: ‘Who’s Tom?
In 1997 I was the recipient of the Artist in Residence award at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Prior to my interviews with the...
Writing from the Heart: Out of the mouth of babes
Remember Bush Jr.’s No Child Left Behind?
It was a lofty idea that didn't work then, and with one in five children living below the...
Writing from the Heart: Make up now
Here’s why you have to make up with your siblings. Right before my sister died, we had the biggest fight we had ever had....