{"id":158,"date":"2026-05-30T20:08:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T20:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sarahmcelwain.com\/?page_id=158"},"modified":"2026-06-06T14:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:26:18","slug":"writing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sarahmcelwain.com\/?page_id=158","title":{"rendered":"WRITING"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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When classically trained Shakespearean actors decide to send up the greatest Elizabethan plays in a free-spirited traveling circus, literature collides with slapstick; magic confronts reality, and wins.\u00a0<\/p>

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120 mealtime blessings that include a wide range of sentiments, amusing and heartfelt to the sacred.<\/p>

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FINGERTIPS PART THREE WITH THANKS TO STEVIE WONDER<\/span><\/h6>
A personal essay about teaching yoga to the blind, anthologized in <\/span>The Art of Touch,<\/b><\/i> University of Georgia Press *\u00a0edited by <\/span>Joan Schweighardt <\/b>& <\/span>Faye Rapoport DesPres
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SPIKE<\/span><\/h6>
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THE CROSSING GUARD<\/span><\/h6>
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THE ADVENTURES OF GOD<\/span><\/h6>\n
Speakeasy #5, <\/span>The Heresy Press Newsletter<\/span> <\/span>* 
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