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Own up to It

Posted by Edith Cook on Tuesday, September 11, 2012, In : Personal

I believe it's important to own our errors alongside things we do right. It's only the latter that makes us feel good and so we often gloss over the former. Last week I made a mistake sizable enough that it couldn't be ignored. Yet the column I wrote about it seems to have left some readers without the needed clarification. To my e-readers I added the following:

"This essay and the emails that prompted it are in the spirit of self-disclosure. If we believe in the concept, we'll own up to our f...

Tales About the Self

Posted by Edith Cook on Saturday, September 17, 2011, In : Reading Life

Men like to build things. Big things, monuments that will leave behind a grand if not grandiose picture of themselves and their group. No matter the time, no matter the culture, the males within a given society love to erect monuments. The urge begins in boyhood and lasts a lifetime.

What men and boys don’t care to build: relationships that would make for amicable discourse, reciprocity, and empathy. That negation, too, begins in boyhood. Recent research has shown that not just individ...

Writing Confessions

Posted by Edith Cook on Saturday, July 23, 2011, In : Writing

“Confess your own story, not someone else’s,” has been my writing motto of late. Since the motto has served me well, I sometimes endeavor to pass on my insights, as I did recently, when an overnight guest of a woman who delighted me with show-and-tell details of certain events that shaped her life.

"I'm so happy you selected my home, Edith," she greeted me at the door. "So glad to get to know you. I'm in the midst of taking a writing workshop." Clearly my host, a musician by vocation, ...

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About Me

Edith Cook

South Of Wheatland In Wyoming

Though I now live in Wyoming, I make frequent return trips to California with visits to travel club members along the way. At home I play classical guitar, enjoy gardening and cooking, and participate in group yoga. Getting together with family and friends is high on my agenda. I value people who write or make music and love it when my adult children and their offspring play their instruments, sing songs with me, or discuss what they read and write. Such gatherings help me cope with the losses in my life, which have been severe. Next year I hope to visit family in Germany.