Why I Spell covid-19 This Way
Words are a big deal. No matter how many times we chant―sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me―some part of us knows this is not true. True, they can‘t break bones, but that‘s because words don‘t operate in the physical dimension. Jump into...
So, creatives… now Your Solitude is all the rage
Working in your studio, writing a novel or a song, arranging a show, outlining your next article, planning your next presentation, getting a gallery meeting, detailing a business plan, making your unique mask, most of this time you are by yourself, yes? Your natural...
A covid-19 Moment In My Life
It’s chilly in my New England writing studio this afternoon, April 10, in the Year of covid-19. Grey skies, intermittent snowflake-hail showers, tree limbs still bare and bent by the wind. Perhaps it’s time to rev up my fake, gas-fed wood stove, minus the...
Come Rummage Around My Daily Reflections With Me…
Sometimes, I have flashes of insight, not unlike most of us. From my reading. Or ruminating. Sometimes I write them down. If you are curious about what keeps me up at night. Or what relentlessly trips the light fantastic, I’ll put them here, in my Daily Reflection...
Why I Write
When the eldest of my five grandbabies asked me, Mima, why do you write? Here’s what I told her. I write because... Words, like honey, flow from my imagination and into my fingers, begging me to slide them onto paper or screen. Words whisper their rightness to be...