Writer - Lynn Burlingham
My writing life began when I sat down with a legal pad and a pencil at my desk facing the Delaware River ten months after my son was born and wrote the words: gifted, or just your average weirdo?I had just moved into a charming house on the water after ten years of living in NYC apartments. New mother, new house. But, restless with ideas shooting around in my brain. It had come to me the year before (when I was teaching at Hunter College Elem. School–NYC’s public school for gifted children) that I wanted to write a book about a gifted kid with identity problems.
Here was my opportunity ....
My Latest Article 
Norway Part V
We arrived in Oslo from Bergen using NSB– in a wonderful scenic route over the high mountains, then bus to Schein Skøyen. My cousin, Lillebeth, picked us up at 10:30 at night on July 11th...
January 25, 2012 | Read the story +
Norway Part IV
We docked at Trondheim at 6:30 a.m. for a three and a half hour stop. Paul and I waited for my niece’s son, who is studying at the University of Trondheim to appear; even at this early hour we w...
January 23, 2012 | Read the story +
Table of Contents for Blog Articles
- Beginning of my Writing Life
- Should I begin a website?
- Three Steps to Creativity
- Communicating Effervescence
- The Fallen Leaves of Books
- After a Virus Has Passed
- Sex, Horses, and Breathing
- Feast for Seven Women
- Talks with My Cousin Dorothy
- What’s in a tidbit?
- The Value of Layers
- Tweaking Facts to Create Fiction
- Thanksgiving
- Thinking of Our Summer Cabin at the Lake
- Christmas Is Coming