Amy Sue Nathan

Writer, Mom, Reluctant Laundress

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Pride without Prejudice

Dec 14, 2009 8:46am

In the spring of 1990 when I had been married about six weeks, my husband graduated from medical school. The group of about 100 students recited the Hippocratic Oath and thus became physicians. The dean, on the stage in the hospital’s auditorium, then called the graduates by name...

Unique

Dec 8, 2009 5:20am

I think one of the biggest hurdles to get over as a writer is when you realize and accept that your work is not unique simply because you wrote it. I’ll let that one settle a bit in case it’s news to you....

First snow

Dec 7, 2009 5:22am

Although I live in a Midwestern tundra, my affection for cold weather is limited to the fact that I can build fires in the fireplace and put marshmallows in hot chocolate. So when I walked down the hall at just after six this morning to let out the dogs, and...

You talkin’ to me?

Dec 6, 2009 8:19am

With the myriad of manuscripts on my hard drive, books in my TBR pile and TV shows DVR’ed I’ve noticed a trend. Writers like to talk to viewers and readers. You know the shows where the character turns to the camera and talks to you? Writers do that to. It’s...

Character vs. caricature

Dec 4, 2009 9:10am

When I think of a caricature I think of a guy or a gal, sitting behind an easel in a park or at a Bar Mitzvah drawing pictures that exacerbate willing models’ strengths and weaknesses. If you have a big nose, you can bet, in a caricature, your schnoz is...

So, yea, um, it’s me. Here. On the blog. This one. Uh huh.

Dec 3, 2009 5:55am

Know what’s harder than going back to the gym after Thanksgiving? Going back to the blog after a month. Truly. What is up with that? So I’m going to give it another whirl, just as everyone is gearing up to slow down online for the holidays, I’ll be here trying to keep...

Don’t chop yourself to bits but…

Nov 6, 2009 4:58am

On Tuesday nights I watch The Biggest Loser and then switch to Food Network and watch Chopped. The incongruity of this pairing is not lost on me, not to worry. On Chopped, four chefs each have a basket of secret ingredients and are challenged to make an appetizer in 20 minutes,...