Well, my promise to myself to blog more frequently has fallen by the wayside of late. Mondays seem to be about all I can manage. And that’s okay. I made myself no rules–was only trying to give some sorely needed encouragement to stay in touch with my writing self. I have been working on revising […]
2015 School Field Trip – A Photo Story Read More »
I love, love, LOVE this time of year. Two short weeks where the weather is absolutely perfect and the trees so red and golden you could drink them for wine. We went on a church picnic, and here are a few shots I took there. This afternoon, my brother Ben agreed to take some reference
October 2015 Photos Read More »
I’m talking about Mommsen’s Pumpkin Patch, and if you live anywhere in the vicinity of Rice Lake, Wisconsin, surely you’ve heard of it. The perfect place to take your children on an autumn day when the air is crisp and apple-biting and sun pours from the sky like liquid gold. A couple of the teachers
Worry Ends in the Pumpkin Patch Read More »
This past Monday evening the phone rang. Once, and then Mom plucked it from the receiver: the call we’d all been waiting for. She stood, listening intently, her cheeks lifted and eyes expectant with something that might have been excitement, or fear, or both. I knew her unspoken questions: Is Dora okay? the baby? And
All morning, I tried to write, and all morning the world was too vast, my thoughts too uncategorized and vague, to put anything into sequence. All I could think was: Who cares, anyway? Who cares but me? Not very encouraging words for an author. Writing requires only two things, really: courage and stupidity. Since I
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