What If? Why Not? How? with Sally Wiener Grotta
Sally Wiener GrottaWhat If? Why Not? How? consists of Sally’s personal essays & her interviews with creatives & visionaries, in which she asks questions not to seek answers about this confounding, beautiful, ugly world, but to initiate & sustain dialogs. (Always free)
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Verbicide - A Word Whose Time Has Come
I enjoy etymology, because I feel if I understand the roots of words, the layers of meaning can add to my prose. Other times, I’m reminded of a word I haven’t considered for some time, or see it in a new way. So I’m on a couple of word of t...
Guest Essay: COUNTING WHAT CAN’T BE COUNTED by Emma Brattin
I’ve just come in from trying to walk my dogs Shayna and Bella through snow-clogged city streets and icy sidewalks. Of course, they love it. The higher and fluffier the snow mounds, the happier they are, bounding and burrowing through the c...
A Freelancer’s Life: The Necessary Stress of Phantom Deadlines
I’ve been a freelancer my entire adult life. The last time I had a salaried job was a short stint as a dental assistant when I moved to Manhattan soon after college. (My dad was an orthodontist, and I had helped him out from time to time. S...
In this Janus Moment
Welcome to 2026. The holiday whoopla is over, and it’s back to our real lives. For some, that means the beginning of the January doldrums. I can understand why folks can feel that way. Yes, we are on the other side of the solstice, and ligh...
Time is Deaf
Every year, on New Year’s Eve or Day, I write a poem. Every year, I’m sure I don’t have another in me; the well is dry. But then a first line leaps out of the creative chaos I call my mind. And I jot the thought down on a scrap of paper or...
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Sally Wiener Grotta is an award-winning author, podcaster & speaker. Driven to write to try to understand the incomprehensible – e.g. hate, cruelty, and indifference – Sally doesn’t seek answers but the questions that we should be asking - & dialogs.
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