Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now

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  • Another weekend rabbit hole

    This travel blog — I stumbled on it while gawking around the vast universe of travel blogs — caught my attention for its depth of coverage. The Wandering Queen surprised me for its effort to provide detailed and useful information about places and gear. Since it covers areas I’m familiar with (including Oregon and western…

  • The long farewell

    I missed two personal deadlines to get a somewhat polished version of my young adult thriller, “The Macklin Powers,” off to early readers. I promised to send it on a Friday. Friday passed with nothing sent. Then a week went by. Then I promised it would arrive on Monday, a day that also came and…

  • Holding space

    The story, told this week on This American Life, made me pull over and cry. For its beauty, for its simplicity. It tells the story of people who don’t want drug addicts to die. I would give more details, but I think others might appreciate experiencing this story the way I did. Here’s a link:…