• About / Contact
  • Blog
  • Novels
  • Sea Saga Memoir
  • Stories & Poetry
  • The Sea Within Trilogy
  • When Things Go Missing

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing from the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Backyard

Exploring the Deer Paths Behind My Home

December 4, 2020

I spent a lovely morning recently exploring some of the deer paths behind our home, stopping to take photos along …

Continue reading →

Primary Wonder, Age Three

April 13, 2016

Primary Wonder, Age Three Walking with our granddaughter Whispering and waving Our wings Sniffing for bats. What do you smell …

Continue reading →

Walking in a Green-Winter Wonderland

February 1, 2015

Here on the central coast of California, we look forward to a green, rather than white, Christmas. While we love …

Continue reading →

A Frosty, Sunlit Morning Walk

January 7, 2013

Yesterday when I woke the frost was so heavy on the grassy meadow behind our house it looked like a …

Continue reading →

A Deer’s Scream – Beauty and Brutality at Home and in the Hills of Vietnam

October 30, 2012

The most horrifying sound I’ve ever heard came one night soon after we moved here.  A scream of pure terror …

Continue reading →

Touching the Wild

October 15, 2012

“The word wild is like a gray fox trotting off through the forest, ducking behind bushes, going in and out …

Continue reading →

Riffing on Roses

September 24, 2012

Lately I’ve been playing with roses, photographing them at different stages in bloom, at different times of day, against varied backgrounds, just …

Continue reading →

Waterholes in the Wild and the Backyard

August 13, 2012

Waterholes, whether in the wild or the backyard, are natural gathering places for wildlife and people who like to watch …

Continue reading →

Night Howls

July 31, 2012

Last month around this time when the moon was full, our nights were filled with howling. Almost every night we …

Continue reading →

Newer posts →

Join 11.5K other subscribers

Recent Posts

  • Self-Portraits by Mary Oliver and Me
  • The Iconic 60s: Writing Song Lyrics for This Sea Within
  • My Book Buffet, August 2026
  • “Vast Emptiness, Vastly Full,” A Homecoming
  • This Sea Within, A Poem & Excerpt From My Novel
  • On Mackerel & Metaphor: A Poet Unravels the Universe
  • The Weight of Snow and Regret & Bo Hopkins’ Blues
  • Poetry to Save a Planet in Peril

Protected by Copyscape Plagiarism Finder

Top Posts

  • Blogging and "The Accident of Touching"
  • Celebrating Lasting Love
  • The Weight of Snow and Regret & Bo Hopkins' Blues
  • On Herds, Husbands & Riffing on Writing
  • Joy Not Shared, Dies Young
  • Poetry in the Time of Corona
  • Artists & Writers in Their Studios
  • The Art of Living, a Reminder
  • O Holy Night, What Stars Give Birth To
  • Pinch Me! Writers House Accepts My Novel

Follow Me on Facebook

Follow Me on Facebook

Monthly Archives

Topic Categories

Purpose of Blog

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.

292,473 hits

292,473 hits

Blog at WordPress.com.

Loading Comments...