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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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“Wondrously Strange,” Our Crossing to the Marquesas

August 28, 2017

    I was reading from some of my old sailing journals when I came across this entry. It captures …

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The Pieta & the Writer’s Palette, Redux

August 22, 2017

It’s been said that for writers the blank page is our canvas and words our paint. But I don’t think …

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5 Years Blogging from the Edge of the Wild

July 9, 2017

I began this blog five years ago, in July 2012. It’s been a wild ride, and I’ve loved every minute …

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My Art or My Novel. Which Would You Choose?

March 16, 2017

Someone asked me recently what I loved more, my painting or my writing? Or, she added, is that like trying …

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A Poet & an Artist on Making the Unknown Known

January 30, 2017

I came across two quotations about the creative process recently and found such striking similarities I had to explore them …

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Painting, a New Passion

December 5, 2016

Writing has always been the primary passion in my life, the thing I love most to do and identify with. …

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Hot Hills in Summer Heat, Revised

July 9, 2015

“I watch them every summer, the hot hills crouched like a lion beside the road, tawny skin pulled taut across …

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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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Good Prose and Good Science — Quibbling with the Masters

January 18, 2015

At first Steven Pinker was my new hero. Within the first few pages of reading his widely acclaimed “The Sense …

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Blogging A Trail of Bread Crumbs – 2014 Recap

January 9, 2015

Blog posts are like a trail of bread crumbs leading you back through a misty past. They tell you where …

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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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