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we sold our house and came to Italy I almost tossed the laptop but changed my mind went to see Sy in North Carolina came back and kept writing did a workshop in the Mission District came back and kept writing laughed with Pat Schneider in Connecticut came back and kept writing spent time in a French chateau came back and kept writing Now taking reservations for the May 16-23, 2026 “How To...
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I’m not sure why I started writing the handwritten journal but it has taken on a life of its own. I write in it nearly every day now. As a lonely expatriate I get a feeling of anonymous connection by putting pages of the handwritten journal on the Internet. Then I see you at a party and you tell me you read it. Which is unlikely since I live in Italy. Still, I think about the possibility...
[Note: This is pretty much a literal transcription of the podcast.]–ct Good morning, or evening, this is Cary Tennis, it’s Thursday, April 29, 2021, and today I’m going to do things slightly differently because this is the story behind the workshops and the book, that is, the Finishing School workshops. So how it really began is like this: In 2004 I was finishing up an article...