When I was their age, writers themselves did not exist beyond the stories I read. Stories and books simply were–like my parents, like trees, like breathing.
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Originally published May, 2015 All I could see at first was the skirt’s long hem and the sensible shoes, which had arrived to pause at the edge of the trail that runs behind our house. Then I saw almost the entire boy, as he was small enough to appear (sneakers and socks, shorts and blue […]
Read moreWe sat down together in November, my delightful editor and I. Truly, Elizabeth is delightful. Soft-spoken, encouraging, joyful, savvy, and a real Powerhouse of a Person. Elizabeth Gets Things Done. So I sat down with her because I needed a little help with the whole social media aspect of this book publishing thing. My […]
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“Green,” a word that covers but can’t epitomize what I’m seeing.
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My novel and I are in a strange twilight these days. I finished the book over a year ago, completed the edits for publication in January, and was handed a hard copy (two of them, in fact) last month. For all intents and purposes, this book is ready to go. Except that it isn’t. There […]
Read moreThe Poem If a proverb can be a way to say it, if life can be a highway, then this was a week of heavy traffic. Personally, I prefer a two-lane road, one of a country or–on a bad day–suburban variety, with cars traveling both ways. And as a speed limit goes, thirty-five sounds […]
Read moreThis much was clear about Dr. Donnelly: he liked Interesting–and from what he said, he apparently found it difficult to come by.
Read moreI have this thing I do when deciding about a book. Do you do this too? Whether standing in the bookstore or the library stacks, at a rotating book rack in the airport or, even, in front of a bookshelf in the home of a friend: I open the book at random and I read. […]
Read moreThis morning, after days of cloudless blue, our sky was overcast. But it was warm again, and through open doors and windows, I could hear the blue-jays cry. I don’t hear the jays every day. At our feeder we get chickadees and finches, a nuthatch, and a small brown bird with a dart of white […]
Read moreWe sat down together in November, my delightful editor and I. Truly, Elizabeth is delightful. Soft-spoken, encouraging, joyful, savvy, and a real Powerhouse of a Person. Elizabeth Gets Things Done. So I sat down with her because I needed a little help with the whole social media aspect of this book publishing thing. My edits […]
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