Blog — Sara Schaff

Losing a Country

Today I grieve.

Sara SchaffNovember 6, 2024 Comments

The Relief of Feeling

Every day is full of great beauty and tremendous sorrows. How rarely we are able to fully witness and feel them both at once.

Sara SchaffOctober 20, 2024grief, grieving, love, joy, home Comments

His Memory is a Blessing

Richard and Maggie were the first people I knew who truly showed up for life—and for the people in their lives—with total joy, compassion, and love.

A Sudden Absence of Cynicism

Cynicism is self-protective; it requires wary intelligence, as well as hyper vigilance—or, as a friend recently described, an exhausting state of “waiting for the other shoe to drop.”

Sara SchaffAugust 7, 20242024 Election, Democracy, Hope, Cynicism, Joy, Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, VoteComment

Rereading Munro's Silence

I can admire her artistry and appreciate what I learned from it, but I’ll always understand her stories as a way of processing her silence, and often excusing it.

Sara SchaffJuly 11, 2024Alice Munro, Andrea Skinner, AI, ai, separating the art from the artist, nobel prize, chatgpt, Munro, CanLit, art, writing, fictionComment

In Praise of Doing What You Love Forever

It wasn’t just McKellen’s performance as Falstaff that I found mesmerizing, it was his dedication to the work. The man is 85 and could have long ago retired from stage and screen, living on the windfall of his Gandalf fame

Sara SchaffJune 23, 2024Sir Ian McKellen, The Player Kings, London, West End, Henry IV, Shakespeare, DedicationComment

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