Category Archives: Daily life

Pulled in Too Many Directions

Posted on May 8, 2017 by Clare Dunkle

My memoir, Hope and Other Luxuries, tells about my attempts to cope with my daughter Elena’s anorexia nervosa. But it also tells the story of my creative life from the beginning of my writing career. I’ve decided to share those … Continue reading →

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The Creative Toll of Arguing

Posted on April 12, 2017 by Clare Dunkle

My memoir, Hope and Other Luxuries, tells about my attempts to cope with my daughter Elena’s anorexia nervosa. But it also tells the story of my creative life from the beginning of my writing career. I’ve decided to share those … Continue reading →

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The Imaginary World and the Real World

Posted on March 17, 2017 by Clare Dunkle

My memoir, Hope and Other Luxuries, tells about my attempts to cope with my daughter Elena’s anorexia nervosa. But it also tells the story of my creative life from the beginning of my writing career. I’ve decided to share those … Continue reading →

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Many of you know my daughter Elena as the protagonist of her memoir about adolescent anorexa nervosa, Elena Vanishing. And some of you write to me occasionally to ask how she’s doing. I thought I’d bring you up to date. … Continue reading →

Posted on March 15, 2017 by Clare Dunkle | 4 Comments

The Creative Process: Imagination

Posted on February 28, 2017 by Clare Dunkle

My memoir, Hope and Other Luxuries, tells about my attempts to cope with my daughter Elena’s anorexia nervosa. But it also tells the story of my creative life from the beginning of my writing career. I’ve decided to share those … Continue reading →

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Crafts for Geeks

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Clare Dunkle

My daughter Elena loves to cross stitch. Occasionally, she uses patterns, but most of the time, she makes up her own. She favors retro designs that also pay tribute to the icons of her Millennial generation, such as this Welcome … Continue reading →

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Good-Bye to All That

Posted on September 2, 2014 by Clare Dunkle

Today, I took down the comments function on my blog. It isn’t that I don’t want to read your comments. I do! And it isn’t that I can’t fend off the ridiculous spam comments, either. I have great plugins to … Continue reading →

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Beating the Heat in Germany

Posted on July 6, 2014 by Clare Dunkle

It’s sunny and 85 degrees outside (30 degrees C), and even the ducks are listless and miserable. My Texan friends might laugh, but stop to think about this first: Germany has almost no air conditioning! Everywhere you go right now, … Continue reading →

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When I was a little girl, I was told to watch for the first robin of spring, a big, sturdy bird that liked to eat earthworms. But the fact is that the REAL robin doesn’t come to America at all, … Continue reading →

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Clare Dunkle | 2 Comments

Migration

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Clare Dunkle

To our great delight and lasting enrichment, Joe and I are once again in Germany. We moved back to Rodenbach in July, but I had no time for the blog because I was working on two manuscripts at once. I’m … Continue reading →

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