Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now

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Category: creativity

  • Up close with good work

    Lately in my social media feed various groups have been promoting the value of copy work, the practice of writing by hand the work of authors that writers admire. The strategy helps us see more deeply into the nuts and bolts of good writing. I tried this with a favorite book, The Night Manager, by…

  • So long, Tom

    It was author Tom Robbins — Another Roadside Attraction, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues — who first hinted to me that a novel can do anything. Really. Any thing. His books are funny, insightful and light on their toes. After finishing reading any of them, I understood I was reading for the journey, not the…

  • Oh, Canada

    I think of the Canadian artists known as the Group of Seven in the same way I think of the Hudson River School, the artists who romanticized the stunning iconic landscapes of the United States in the 19th Century. Think Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Cole. The Group of Seven were also landscape painters, but working…