Comments for daniel prazer

Comment on Fighting the good fight. But fighting it right. by Allison Bodnar Jaros

Allison Bodnar Jaros — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 06:53:21 +0000

Thank you for this article Daniel!

I’ve got one more year left at Columbia and hearing bits and pieces of the news/rumors quickly churned out panic in my head. I love the department and the specialization of what it has to offer. But people must calm down, myself included. The best thing is to come at this from a point of understanding of both sides, I may not agree with one side, but if I understand it…I know how to fight it properly. I wish you all the best with A Writing Life, After the Workshop.

To AWP we go!

-Allison Bodnar Jaros

Comment on Amazing debut by an amazing writer by Patricia Ann McNair

Patricia Ann McNair — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 15:13:25 +0000

Hey, did this slip by me? Thanks, Dan. You rock.

Comment on It could’ve been me by Rachel Jackson

Rachel Jackson — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 05:01:03 +0000

I really, really love this post. I felt strange, almost guilty, for being so affected by Tim Hetherington’s death–I’m just a journalism student and I’ve never covered anything important. But then I realized that you’re absolutely right: this could be me. Not today, not tomorrow, but someday my career may lead me to places like Misrata and perhaps to this fate. I do want the experience of covering a war someday, and I’ve always known there would be risks, but hearing this news yesterday somehow made it all the more personal, even though I’ve never met him. Knowing that a journalist was killed doing what he loved makes me realize that someday I might be in danger doing what I love as well. I think that’s why it hit me so hard. Thank you for writing this.

Comment on Story Week Reader 2011 put to bed by Jana

Jana — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:39:37 +0000

Judging by the cover. . :-) . . it looks like this will be another delightful SWReader. Well done, Team Prazer!

Comment on The code of a gentleman by Brian

Brian — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:21:58 +0000

Amen. The only one I can’t claim to have done regularly is #16, standing up for a lady when entering a room or approaching a table. I’ve been meaning to do that. Oh, and spitting, but I’m careful not to be near people. Chivalry and feminism aside, this is a great list.

Comment on With the holidays coming up… by Jana

Jana — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 02:06:34 +0000

Hi Dan,
Thank you for writing this story. Iyengar’s yoga students say he was a real ball-buster of a teacher. Iyengar response, “I have a passion for precision.” You, my friend, have a passion for precision and authenticity in writing and in life. Whenever I start to write towards the easy road out I need to think to myself ‘now what would Dan Prazer say about this?’

Comment on With the holidays coming up… by jamison

jamison — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:34:12 +0000

Great post Dan. I totally identify. Everything changes after a major loss. You suddenly find yourself living in a different world. I find it’s those happy moments in long distance commercials that get me the most. That and those damn holidays…

Comment on With the holidays coming up… by Ilana

Ilana — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:56:53 +0000

Wow, you are amazing. I can so relate to this. I have been hyper-aware of father daughter relationships my whole life, and now that my mother is not quite there anymore, it’s a whole other mourning process. Everywhere I look I see these amazing, supportive mother daughter scenarios. I’m getting an itch to write about what’s going on with my mother but it’s still so raw. We write about it when we’re ready, right?

Comment on With the holidays coming up… by Daniel Prazer

Daniel Prazer — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 04:35:24 +0000

To be honest, my dad was great at hiding it, and I was too young to think anything of it. It’s come through in fiction, but not so much in an overt telling.

Comment on With the holidays coming up… by adultdaughter

adultdaughter — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 04:20:17 +0000

Have you ever written about your experiences growing up with an alcoholic father?