by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Essay
Winning isn’t everything, football coaches likes to say. It’s the only thing. But music is supposed to be different. With music, if you don’t make it to Carnegie Hall, there’s a consolation prize—you can still play for your own enjoyment. Music, after all, has charms...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Essay
What the madeleine conjured for Proust, Ohio conjures for me: memories of hot and happy summers on my grandparents’ farm where I, a “townie” from the West Coast, milked cows, gathered eggs, caught fireflies, made dolls from hollyhocks and nightly with Grandma whipped...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Op-ed
LACEY, WASH. – The death and destruction of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, then the anthrax scare, and who knows what next have shaken Americans to the core. To allay the fear, and deny the terrorists’ objective of miring us in it, we have been advised...
by Carla Seaquist | Mar 18, 2020 | Essay
Lacey, WA. Life, an improvised affair, rarely has the unity or clarity of Art. Our conflicts seldom resolve or even, as Drama prescribes, “stay in the moment.” And our prose: Instead of paragraphs cohering around a single idea, we speak in fragments, non sequiturs,...
