Category: writing
How do you know you’re a writer? If you wrote today, you’re a writer.
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I thought I knew this plant, the vine maple. It’s the great autumn showoff in the forest understory, bright yellow to orange to red. Because I learned its name early in my hiking days, I assumed it was an actual vine and when you see it all scraggly under towering spruce and fir in the…
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As a boomer who grew up on the edge of a treed ravine that went down to the Humber River in Toronto, I was absolutely a free-range kid. In the summer, we wandered freely in the woods. The only absolute rule was to stay away from and out of the river. My mom sent me…
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I ran away to France twice in 2016. Seen now, a decade out, it’s hard to fully recall the pain of that year. Current happiness overlays that time. But living through a marriage disintegration, that’s hard. In May that year, I understood my marriage was doomed, yet I couldn’t imagine life without my spouse. So…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 