“and I thought, I will do my best to serve her and see she gets justice for the good work she has done, as long as I can, so help me God and Mike Ney. But to hell with her lost-generation talk and all the dirty, easy labels.”
Author Archives: Carmel O' Reilly
Chapter 2 I’m Taking Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast on A Moveable Feast. Chapter by Chapter.
“Up in that room I decided that I would write one true story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline.”
Chapter 1 I’m Taking Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast on A Moveable Feast. Chapter by Chapter.
“The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it. I ordered another rum St James.”
Guidelines for Starting and Running your WorkLife Book Club
At the first meeting (or before), to help people get to know each other in the context of reading, a good question to ask everyone is: What do you enjoy about reading?
The Longest Way Round is the Shortest Way Home
The wisdom he had taken from the book gave Tom the courage to move away from the straight and narrow path of auditions to explore new pathways in pursuit of his artistic goals. It gave him an inner strength to believe in himself and served as a reminder not to compromise but to stay truthful to what he wanted to explore.
A Lesson in Self-Awareness
Lesson 1: He ‘“got to wondering’ how his songs related to literature.” ‘Wondering’ is such a simple step and lesson in self-awareness.
A New Year A New Calendar
The calendar represents the next twelve months – the present and the future, and it also represents the past that got me to where I am today.
Write a Short Letter to Yourself From the Perspective of “Future You” Assignment
“I am especially interested in the person you will become by the time you send the letter.”
How to Tell Your Story Through a Story Title That Intrigues You
It’s important because, throughout your WorkLife, you’ll be expected to tell your story or a part of your story: In day-to-day conversations, at interviews, in giving presentations or talks, in networking situations, in social settings; and so on, and so on. Taking a title and developing it into a story that tells who you are and what you’re about is a good skill to develop to enable you to have the perfect story to tell for whatever situation required.