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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing from the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Blogging

Celebrating Ten Years of Blogging

July 11, 2022

When I created this blog ten years ago I named it “Living on the Edge of the Wild.” I saw …

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Time Away, and Back Again. Kinda.

July 7, 2022

I took two months away from blogging, most of May and all of June. Some of that time was finishing …

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Immersed in My Art, Finally

May 2, 2022

Please Do Not Disturb: That’s how I’ve felt these past few months, and even more so these past few weeks, …

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Embracing Joy, A New Year Resolution

January 24, 2022

Like many, I’ve been finding it difficult to write my normal New Year’s “Looking Back, Looking Forward” blog post. Looking …

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To Hu-Mor, or Less? That Is the Question

May 23, 2021

Last week I was questioning whether my blog had become too serious. To even ask such a question, of course, …

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Struggling to Blog

May 17, 2021

I’ve been struggling to find something to blog about this week. Actually I spent half a day yesterday working on …

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Joy Amid the Turmoil: A 2020 Recap

December 28, 2020

The year 2020 may have been the most turbulent year any of us have ever known. Blogging in such a …

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Welcome Reminders from “The Writer’s Life.” Thank You, Annie

June 3, 2019

I’m finding it harder to blog these days, harder to paint, to play piano, to clean house, to do most …

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Three to Share: Beauty, Art, Place

January 7, 2019

I love discovering new blogs that inspire me and want to share three, among many, that I discovered this past …

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2018 – A Look Back, a Look Forward

December 31, 2018

The end of a year always signals a kind of reckoning for me, the urge to look back and assess …

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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.

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