Category: writing
How do you know you’re a writer? If you wrote today, you’re a writer.
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Back in 2022, I bought this azalea, one of three to put in a new garden space. But more stuff happened than expected that year, and the new garden space took a little longer to establish. So the three azaleas remained in their pots and while I remembered to water them, I didn’t always remember…
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Every spring the neighborhood crows visit our river birch tree, which I can see from the window by my desk. I’m banging away on the computer and the flutter of movement catches my eye. About the time the diminutive catkins droop and the leaves come on, the crows show up. They proceed to tug on…
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Woke up thinking about British novelist Wilkie Collins, and his fine 1860s-era detective novel The Moonstone, which I’ve read a few times. There’s a delightful side character in the book who finds solace and wisdom for daily life in rereading the novel Robinson Crusoe (published in 1719). I couldn’t remember where The Moonstone lived in…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 