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.
I Follow Eva
There are so many fine ways to spread joy. When the days are short and cold, without even a softening layer of snow, it is good policy, survival policy, to seek them out. Here’s one; you’re welcome! National Dress Up Your Pet Day is coming, but I don’t need a special...
Winter Trees
It’s deep winter now, when it is sometimes best to rest in the words of others. William Carlos Williams (1893-1963) is said to have been a leading poet of the Imagist movement. I don’t need to study up on that to love this poem. Winter Trees All the complicated...
Santa in the Land of Oz
Everyone will recognize Santa here, but I have a seven year old friend who can name all the others in this Oz illustration; we spent a happy hour not long ago discussing who was who, and how much fun it would be to be seated at that table. The piece was drawn 110...
Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter to the friends of him who writes it.
–Robert Louis Stevenson
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