Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now

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Category: learning

  • The bottom of a boat

    …or why we went to Philadelphia. The United States offers plenty of opportunities to see big boats masquerading as museums and I have been to a few of them. Most recently, the light ship Columbia, a floating lighthouse that helped ships find their way to the mouth of the Columbia River from 1951 to 1979.…

  • So not writing

    Real-world making brings some kind of benefit to a writer. Using actual materials with actual tools provides a different creative boost. So I tell myself. Maybe it’s just writing avoidance. Anyway. The barrel chair. When I bought it more than a decade ago, I thought it was a leather chair. But it was something they…

  • A new goal

    A little essay Always fun when the local weekly lets me write, this time about amateur radio and my new somewhat out-of-this-world goal.