Ann Silverthorn

September 10, 2008 I woke up this morning at 4:15 a.m. and was ready to start the day. I knew I’d need my rest, though, and tried to get back to sleep. By 6:00 a.m. I was still awake, so I got up, showered, ate breakfast, and finished packing. When Jim started helping me pack the…

In Cleveland this week, doctors performed the first US face transplant on a woman “with facial damage so severe that she could not eat on her own or breathe without a hole in her windpipe,” according to The New York Times. “Our patient was called names and was humiliated,” Dr. Siemionow said. “Children ran away.”…

A few years ago, I met Susan Henninger at the Chautauqua Writers’ Festival. Since then, she and I have loosely kept in touch. She helped me with some key research for my writing project, and I connected her with a source for hers. This is one of the many valuable benefits of conferences in any field.…

Yesterday, we went on a three-hour horseback ride, and there was plenty to see. The landscape looks as if someone painted it with a brush. I took a few pictures from the back of my horse, Lollipop. Lollipop, is not a very good looking horse. He has allergies, so his eyes run and he’s getting…