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My Book Buffet Newsletter, January 2026

January 31, 2026

Dear Friends and Followers, Welcome to my January Book Buffet, a monthly newsletter featuring updates on my publishing adventure, including my novels When …

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Risking Delight in a World Gone Awry

January 25, 2026

“We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must havethe stubbornness to accept our gladness in the …

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Martin Luther King on Love, Power, & Economic Justice

January 19, 2026

Celebrating the legacy of Martin Luther King during Donald Trump’s second term as president could not seem more incongruous, nor …

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Lost in a Swirling Sea @ This Sea Within: Naming a Novel & Designing a Cover

January 12, 2026

As many of you know, I’m getting ready to publish my second novel, This Sea Within, later this year. But …

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My Book Buffet Newsletter, December 2025

December 29, 2025

Dear Friends and Followers, Welcome to my December Book Buffet, a monthly newsletter featuring updates on my publishing adventure, including my novels When …

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O Holy Night, Star of Wonder & Delight

December 21, 2025

“O star of wonder, star of light,star with royal beauty bright,westward leading, still proceeding,guide us to thy perfect light.” –From …

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When Every Cell Becomes a Miracle – Dancing on Ecstatic Toes

December 14, 2025

I’ve always loved Walt Whitman’s way of turning the mundane into a miracle, or seeing what’s marvelous in the everyday. …

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Meeting Death Full of Curiosity: Three Poems

December 7, 2025

Our lives are full of curious and mysterious things, and I’m quite certain what came before our birth and after …

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My Book Buffet Newsletter, November 2025

November 24, 2025

Dear Friends and Followers, Welcome to my November newsletter, featuring updates on my publishing adventure, including my novel When Things Go Missing, as …

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A Mist-Washed World of Endless Emerging Forms

November 17, 2025

Lately I’ve been waking to a mist-washed world, hills and trees dissolving into each other. I’ve long been drawn to …

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  • My Book Buffet Newsletter, January 2026
  • Risking Delight in a World Gone Awry
  • Martin Luther King on Love, Power, & Economic Justice
  • Lost in a Swirling Sea @ This Sea Within: Naming a Novel & Designing a Cover
  • My Book Buffet Newsletter, December 2025
  • O Holy Night, Star of Wonder & Delight
  • When Every Cell Becomes a Miracle – Dancing on Ecstatic Toes
  • Meeting Death Full of Curiosity: Three Poems

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After sailing around the world in a small boat for six years, I came to appreciate how tiny and insignificant we humans appear in our natural and untamed surroundings, living always on the edge of the wild, into which we are embedded even while being that thing which sets us apart. Now living again on the edge of the wild in a home that borders a nature preserve, I am re-exploring what it means to be human in a more than human world.

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