Debra Darvick
Archives: 2008-2020Debra Darvick –– I’m not the CEO of Learjet
One of the biggest frustrations many creatives have is not the creating but getting the work out there. Vincent had his brother Theo. Matisse had the Cone sisters. Michaelangelo had Pope Julius or so Wiki tells me. For the rest of us, there are things we do great and...
Home Making: The sisterhood of the traveling remnant
For nearly thirty years, my mother, sister, and I circulated among us a remnant of printed linen that began life as full-length tie backs at my bedroom windows. Today, even in its two-yard microcosm, the fabric radiates elegance. Cobalt asters and pink astilbe bloom...
His Lens My Pen: Staying Calm, Serene and Unruffled
This is the second in a monthly series of a new feature called His Lens/My Pen, a collaboration with my husband. He's the one with the camera; I'm the one with the pen as it were. Ergo His Lens/My Pen. Continuing with the bird theme from last month's image, Martin...
Debra Darvick: Heirlooms of Thoreau, Whitman, Seurat and …
I was never one of those kids who played house all the time. I didn't have rafts of baby dolls whom I fed little plastic bottles filled with pretend milk before putting them to bed in shoebox cribs lined with fabric scraps borrowed from my mother's sewing box. I never...
Debra Darvick reviews The End of Your Life Book Club
Will Schwalbe has written a beautiful book. When his mother, Mary Anne Schwalbe, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, he accompanied her to her treatments. Over the course of those long afternoons in Memorial Sloan-Kettering's waiting rooms and treatment rooms, they...
Debra Darvick reviews The Colored Car
Merely typing these three words—The Colored Car—makes me cringe. Compressed into those four syllables is an arc of our country's history run through with inhumanity, pain, bigotry, humiliation. It is an apt title, the only title really, for Jean Alicia Elster's new...
Debra Darvick reviews With a Mighty Hand by Amy Ehrlich
With Rosh Hashana arriving Wednesday night, and being one of the People of the Book, I thought that it would be good to begin the new year 5774 with three book reviews. Come back next Monday and Wednesday for two more. When I received a review copy of With a Mighty...
His Lens My Pen: ‘The Pull of Shadow and Surf’
This week I'm introducing a new feature. I've long wanted to collaborate with my husband in a creative endeavor, and since he's the one with the camera and I'm the one with the pen as it were, His Lens/My Pen seems to be the natural intersection. It's a thrill to be...
My dream comes true: Following in Dear Abby’s footsteps
This letter from Ann Landers was one of the greatest thrills of my young life! I've had a lifelong passion for advice columnists, starting with Dear Abby when I was about nine or ten. This was my after-school routine: get home at three-thirty; grab the pertinent...
Voices & Visions: Art inspired by Jewish wisdom
Last Saturday in synagogue, instead of a sermon, we had a fabulous discussion inspired by the Voices & Visions™ project, an exhibit sponsored by the Harold Grinspoon Foundation. Voices & Visions™ is about art, about powerful messages, about combining them...
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