Toni Morrison: Diving Into Darkness on Wings of Light
Last in my series “Brushes With Blackness” on how Black lives and Black Culture colored my Whiteness. I’d always wanted …
Tag Archives: writing
Welcome Reminders from “The Writer’s Life.” Thank You, Annie
I’m finding it harder to blog these days, harder to paint, to play piano, to clean house, to do most …
Life through a Lens, What We Gain & Lose, Redux
How much of our lives do we view through a narrow lens, whether through the lens of a camera, our …
On Photography – Researching My Sequel
I’m working on a sequel to my novel From the Far Ends of the Earth, mostly research and note-taking at …
Endings & Beginnings, A Writer’s Life
Well, I just finished rewriting the ending of my novel as requested by a publisher. We will see what they …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
