Jane Ratcliffe
Jane Ratcliffe has been a journalist and a ghostwriter for authors she legally cannot name. Her novel The Free Fall (Henry Holt) was chosen by the New York Public Library as a notable book of 2002. She teaches writing at Washtenaw Community College and conducts private workshops in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
The Way Home
Jessica and I periodically take walks together. Her small dog, Ortiz, sometimes joins us. He spends his days eating shoes, peeing on the carpet, and jumping the backyard fence. But no matter where we go, I notice that he always knows the way home.
July 2019What Do You Need?
In Tibetan the word for “heart” and “mind” is the same because it is believed that the mind is located in the heart, not the brain, where we Westerners place it. It was a notion I quite liked but didn’t know what to do with on a daily operating basis that summer.
December 2010Has something we published moved you? Fired you up? Did we miss the mark? We’d love to hear about it.
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