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 …
Category Archives: Writing
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, …
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 …
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 …
True Tales Growing Up in a Haunted House
Have you ever had any ghostly encounters? Each year around this time, I like to reblog a series of tales …
“Something in This Sleeping Earth” – Two by Whyte, One by Fiske
All My Body Calls All my body calls for something in this sleeping earth we call the spirit. But how …
The Poetics of Place: Redwood Speech,Watershed Prayers
“I want to see our words jump off the ground, erupt from a sensual earth, musty, humid, gritty. I want …
Recipe for a Painting: Durrell on Venice at Dawn
Quote of the Week “These thoughts belong to Venice at dawn, seen from the deck of the ship which is …
“Love After Love.” A Poem. A Feast.
Love After Love by Derek Walcott The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your …
