Title: Twelfth Night and Unre­quit­ed Love Grade Level: 11th grade Time needed: More time than would be con­sid­ered healthy.  Descrip­tion: In this lesson, stu­dents will read William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The play is a comedy, and so by def­i­n­i­tion ends in mar­riage, though we will note that…

During my medical career, my writing was con­fined to aca­d­e­m­ic jour­nals, book chap­tersand grant appli­ca­tions. I never imag­ined writing for any other reason. However, within weeks ofmy early retire­ment, I began record­ing the details of pivotal events from my medicalexpe­ri­ences. I did not under­stand at…

Inter­view Why do you write? I write because I’m hope­less without it. Is there an author who has most pro­found­ly influ­enced your work? The first author that blew my socks off was Kurt Von­negut. Although my focus is mainly poetry, it was the impact of his novels—the…