During much of the past six weeks I have been away. A mixture of work, workshops, family visits and a trip to Ireland to hear Van...

The pond hasn’t iced yet though the morning sparkles with cold it’s not enough for frost. We still haven’t shifted away the last of the...

In a couple of days I leave for the west coast. I’ll have time to visit with long time friends before going to a writing workshop with...

The day after the full blood super moon eclipse is a Monday. It is a cloudy somewhat dreary morning in early autumn. Everything looks dry...

I am at the point in working on my novel when I’ve generated enough words that I need to put one page after the other, chapter after...

On the way home from town yesterday in the surprising cool of a late August afternoon I noticed a tinge of yellow on the leaves. It seems...

Last week I spent a perfect summer day with a small group of writer friends gathered for a retreat on my back porch.There was just a bit...

I have let the gardens go wild this year. Back in late April on a day that promised summer  I  weeded the lower part of the garden,...

July 4 has come and gone and I hardly feel like its summer. Not having kids in school will do that. Coolest, wettest, June I can ever...

Last week I took a course at the writing festival in Iowa City called Novel in a Week taught by Kelly Dwyer.  I discovered why it was was...

Grandson.

It is my first grandson’s birthday today. From the first he has been a gift, along with my title of Nana. Being a grandparent I am able...

Possibilities…..

I watched an old Star Trek voyager last night; Captain Janeway and Tom got caught in a subspace time fracture. I’ll spare the details but...

Mother’s Day. #MothersDay

This Mother’s Day I am thinking how grateful I am to my two daughters. From the time they were born they grounded me. They may have...

Weeding. #poetrymonth

I am taking break in the early evening on this beautiful spring day from weeding in my garden to weed through the poems I wrote during...

A habit of words. #napowrimo #poetry #Writing

I have written a poem a day for the last twenty-two days. I gave my word to do it and so I did. It is not about inspiration or finding...