I feel vaguely guilty whenever I leave this bench. It’s a white bench, made of marble. It sits along a pathway through the campus of a private school in a suburb of Seattle. On one side of the horizontal slab, black carved letters in a swooshy font spell out my son’s name. His birth date. [...]
Mark Nassutti
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Finalist
I received a very nice phone call Saturday. The caller was Pam Binder, of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association. She told me that one of my essays, “Telling Him,” is a finalist in the PNWA’s annual writing contest, in the Short Adult Topics category. I’ll find out exactly where I finish when I attend the [...]
What is Trieste?
And how is Trieste relevant to my story? Fellow writers, upon reading an early version of my book, challenged me with a question: “You’ve written about your own experience and your experience with your children, but you’ve hardly mentioned your father. You didn’t show up to the challenges fatherhood a blank slate. How did he [...]
Why write a memoir?
My inspiration came from the reactions of friends and family to emails I wrote while my son Andrew battled brain cancer. They wanted to know what was going on. Each time I was about to hit “Send,” I couldn’t help but feel that I was imposing on them, or at least depressing them with the [...]