AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR

Peg Guilfoyle

Writer and speaker Peg Guilfoyle is the originator and writer of the wide-ranging Motley Peg small essay series. Her The Guthrie Theater: Images, History, and Inside Stories won a Midwest Book Award and an Independent Publishers Award.  Other books cover regional history, genealogy and essays, and theater life.

Discipline in a Political Season

Discipline in a Political Season

It’s a time for doing what we can, as this election cycle turns into the homestretch, all the competitors lengthening their strides, accelerating for a possible photo finish. The heat on the track is increasing. Most of the things we do as individual citizens, however...

Sustenance in a Political Season

Sustenance in a Political Season

It’s a political season. We must take encouragement where we find it. Every murmured “I like your button”, every half-smile, every thumbs-up is a reminder that national bombast, whatever its volume, is not the only method of communication in the country we love. We...

Summer Joys

Summer Joys

Isn’t there always a day when we can feel the waning of summer and the onrush of the fall? Summer joys become even more sweet as we move inevitably along. What were your summer joys this year? Among mine, while traveling in northern Michigan:    Joyous unbridled teens...

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Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter to the friends of him who writes it.

–Robert Louis Stevenson