Monthly Archives: February 2021

Who knows why, but the word “enchantment” was floating around in my head this morning just as I woke up as the theme for this post, so I’m going with it. Enchantment — a lovely word, isn’t it? It rolls … Continue reading →

When Lin-Manuel Miranda was creating his smash hit Hamilton, he spent some of his time writing the musical in an old Revolutionary War-era mansion in Upper Manhattan. Just sitting in the place where the characters he was writing about had … Continue reading →

When J.K. Rowling was penning her now-legendary Harry Potter series, one of the tools she used was a version of storyboarding: She mapped out her chapter outlines and plot points using vertical columns on a sheet of paper. This gave … Continue reading →

Snow is falling all around outside my windows, making everything feel different: The light is different. The feeling of being enclosed in my house is different — as if I were wrapped in a cocoon. The world outside my door … Continue reading →