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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing from the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Major Life Changes – Writing with Toddlers (or not)

June 27, 2015

Funny how life plays these little tricks on you. When my own children were toddlers, I put my writing aspirations …

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Mothers & Other Lovers, Compelling Art

June 14, 2015

What makes compelling art? Why do I find this image of mother and child, and the ones below, so powerful and …

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Sensuous Sunday: Air, an Enigma

May 31, 2015

“What a mystery is the air, what an enigma to these human senses! On the one hand , the air …

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Nature and Consciousness – Seeing Things as They Are

May 27, 2015

Every time I write about nature I get deep into human consciousness. You can’t really separate the two. There is …

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“Looking for Bobby,” or Losing & Finding Ourselves

May 17, 2015

May is short story month, and in celebration I’m posting a short story I wrote years ago and published in …

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To Mother the World

May 10, 2015

The novel I am working on is about relationships between mothers and children and all the ways that is expressed, …

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Poets on Poetry: Mark Doty, Mackerel & Metaphors

April 30, 2015

One of the things I love most is writing about writing, unraveling the creative process, how the mind at play …

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My Top 25 Binge-Worthy TV Series

April 19, 2015

It appears to be all the rage now, binge-watching favorite TV  series. Especially with the advent of Netflix originals, where …

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Sexy, Smart, Sweet, & Soulful

April 12, 2015

Finally! I found what I was looking for when I wrote the post Speaking of Erotica, a “steamy love story …

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Primary Wonder & A Bell Awakened – Two By Levertov

March 29, 2015

The whole purpose of life, of this extraordinary experience in being, is to be awake to the wonder and mystery …

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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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