2018 – A Look Back, a Look Forward
The end of a year always signals a kind of reckoning for me, the urge to look back and assess …
Author Archives: Deborah J. Brasket
O Holy Night, Images Sacred & Sublime
Star_birth_in_Messier_83_(captured_by_the_Hubble_Space_Telescope) I’ve gathered some images, sacred and sublime, to scroll through as you listen to “O Holy Night“, one of my …
10,000 Thank-You’s! A Blogging Milepost
I have so many things to be grateful for, not least among them the ten-thousand people who, for whatever reason, …
“The Secret of Happiness” – A Coda to My Last Post
After my last post on “happy endings” for our novels or ourselves, I’ve been thinking a lot about what exactly …
A Happy Ending for My Novel? For My Son?
One of the publishers we sent my novel to wants a rewrite of the ending. While their readers said they …
Seeing the Self in What We Love
I’ve become mesmerized by the quote below I found on The Beauty We Love. These first four lines, especially, move …
Pied Beauty, Poem & Paintings
Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins Glory be to God for dappled things – For skies of couple-colour as a …
New Paintings, the Folding Hills of California
I’ve long loved the way the rolling hills along the coast of California fold together and overlap, the sensuality of …
Steeling Myself for Tomorrow: The Day After the Election
Recently, in a morbid mood, I told my husband that if the Democrats do not win back the House I …
This Moment Is Too Important to Sit Out
I’ve tried my best to steer clear of politics on this blog. I spent too many years in the trenches …
