Articles by Nell Boeschenstein
February 24, 2011
The Pen, Mightier 34
We care about what our words look like because we somewhere believe that this says something about who we are beyond font or scrawl.
August 10, 2010
The Way We Used to Walk the Dog 16
Often, until I am directly confronted with the sight of a girl and her book—a sight outside the purview of my current routines—it can slip my mind that I, too, used to read like that. To love reading like that.
May 20, 2010
Skills and Interests 23
I see now that writing has proven at least as costly as a pony could have ever been.
January 15, 2010
Down by the Riverside 6
Folk music, funerals, and “goodbye to all that.” On reaching across the generational divide.