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 
They Don’t Make Boots Like They Use To
The last time it snowed in Lawrence, Paul and I threw our cross-country skis into the Subaru and drove out to the grounds of the country club. We snapped into our skis and were off across the ex...
February 10, 2010 | Read the story +
Picnic in the Park
I am thinking of a tableau I came across once. Paul and I were strolling through Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. It was spring. It had just rained. We had encountered a few ...
February 08, 2010 | 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