I’ve been thinking about voices a lot lately, maybe because there are so many of them in the world, speaking so loudly and all at once, and only occasionally saying anything worth hearing. The singer who sings with someone else's lungs Voices for the voiceless Speaking with your knee A voice recently fallen silent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqDq3eyTGck... Continue Reading →
Gag order: finding the courage to speak
"If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all." I nearly fell over when I heard those words from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout on NPR's Fresh Air, quoting her father from her childhood. Could Strout and I somehow be related?* My father used to say exactly the same thing to... Continue Reading →
AUDREY KALMAN 