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Still on the Yellow Brick Road

By Joanne Leedom-Ackerman | December 2, 2024

Dec 2, 2024

Still on the Yellow Brick Road

Dec 2, 2024

Words Matter…Ideas Matter…and Guide

By Joanne Leedom-Ackerman | November 1, 2024

Nov 1, 2024

Words Matter…Ideas Matter…and Guide

Nov 1, 2024

Finding Light in a Dark Time

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Oct 1, 2024

Finding Light in a Dark Time

Oct 1, 2024

A Moment Past As We Go Forward…

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Sep 5, 2024

A Moment Past As We Go Forward…

Sep 5, 2024

Barking at Thunder

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Aug 1, 2024

Barking at Thunder

Aug 1, 2024

Eyes On Pluto — Joanne Leedom-Ackerman

With fraught political climates on the ground in many countries-at least 64 countries face elections this year with democracies in the…

Jul 1, 2024

Eyes On Pluto — Joanne Leedom-Ackerman

Jul 1, 2024

Calm Before and During the Storm

Poised on the threshold of summer, of university protests and disrupted graduations, of US political conventions in July and August, of…

Jun 4, 2024

Calm Before and During the Storm

Jun 4, 2024

Bridges Through Literature — Joanne Leedom-Ackerman

In the early years of this century — 2004–2007 — I was elected the International Secretary of PEN International, a position at the time…

May 1, 2024

Bridges Through Literature — Joanne Leedom-Ackerman

May 1, 2024

Spring Showers…Ideas Blooming…Book Tours in the Rain

Four out of the first six book events for my new novel The Far Side of the Desert occurred in the rain with downpours in two cities. Such…

Apr 3, 2024

Spring Showers…Ideas Blooming…Book Tours in the Rain

Apr 3, 2024

The Far Side of the Desert

July, 2007

Mar 1, 2024

The Far Side of the Desert

Mar 1, 2024

One Voice…One Thought…One Oyster Shell at a Time

Sitting in an easy chair with my laptop desk and computer, I look out over the river on this winter’s day-frozen ground, chunks of ice…

Feb 1, 2024

One Voice…One Thought…One Oyster Shell at a Time

Feb 1, 2024

On the Move-New Year, New Day, New Thoughts…

Nobel physicist Albert Einstein advised: “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking that created them,” and he urged a new way of…

Jan 8, 2024

On the Move-New Year, New Day, New Thoughts…

Jan 8, 2024

Sunrise and a Wish

Sometimes I lose myself in the sunrise. I watch the earth’s slow motion as the sun creeps above the horizon, first as a streak of red light…

Dec 1, 2023

Sunrise and a Wish

Dec 1, 2023

In an Unspeakable Time…Thanksgiving…Gratitude?

It is lunchtime on a blue sky day in Washington, DC. Outside on the restaurant patio where I’ve had breakfast and have been writing…

Nov 1, 2023

In an Unspeakable Time…Thanksgiving…Gratitude?

Nov 1, 2023

On the Edge of the UN

The week of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting is full of targeted and chaotic energy from around the world. I was there by…

Oct 2, 2023

On the Edge of the UN

Oct 2, 2023

In London…Again!

I spent part of August in London, one of the centers of the universe for many of us English literature majors in college and life. Though I…

Sep 6, 2023

In London…Again!

Sep 6, 2023

On The Yellow Brick Road

I’m launching a newsletter on Substack at the encouragement of my publisher. My Substack “On the Yellow Brick Road” will officially launch…

Aug 9, 2023

On The Yellow Brick Road

Aug 9, 2023

The Longest Day in a Spinning World

The summer solstice June 21 slid by on a cloudy chilly day with buckets of rain on the Eastern Shore of Maryland so that I barely noticed…

Jun 27, 2023

The Longest Day in a Spinning World

Jun 27, 2023

Nashville: Facing the Wind

In the wake of recent events in the Tennessee General Assembly which expelled two African American lawmakers for their role in an…

Apr 18, 2023

Apr 18, 2023

The Manuscript in the Drawer

The Manuscript in the Drawer

Mar 27, 2023

The Manuscript in the Drawer

Mar 27, 2023

Joanne Leedom-Ackerman

Joanne Leedom-Ackerman

Novelist and Journalist, Author of The Far Side of the Desert and Burning Distance, Vice President of PEN International joanneleedom-ackerman.com

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