The Beauty That Follows “Peak Foliage” During the forty years I’ve been living in Vermont, I’ve developed an increasing dislike of Peak Foliage, when forecasters announce where and when the reds and yellows will be most spectacular. My problem is that Peak Foliage disregards the beauty that follows foliage season: the golden beech and burnished […]
Writing to the Light #7
Writing to the Light Writing Circle #7 The seventh annual Writing to the Light Writing Circle led by writer and educator Deborah Lee Luskin will take place in person on Sunday, December 10 at the Moore Free Library, 23 West Street, Newfane. The workshop will start promptly at 1 pm and end at 3:30. At […]
Identifying Beep, Buzz and Chirp
Identifying Birdsong With the help of the Merlin app, I’ve been learning to identify birdsong. I now recognize the most common birds that nest near my house; red-winged blackbird, belted kingfisher, American robin, house wren, Northern cardinal, Oriole, broad-winged hawk, crow, chickadee, and phoebe. I know some others, like juncos, sparrows, and nuthatches by sight […]
Finding an Endpoint on a Creative Project
Finishing a Revision I’ve been single-tasking to finish the revision of a book-length manuscript. Aside aside from working on Reviving Artemis: Becoming a Huntress at Sixty, I’ve done little beyond weeding my vegetable garden, which really isn’t very different from writing. And both this draft of the book and this iteration of the vegetable garden […]
Vandalizing Public “Trust”
This vandal defaced the library book at least four times, each time “correcting” the author’s style, as if there’s only one way to write, inserting the word “increasing” as an adjective, editing “a myriad of” to simply “myriad” (twice), and commenting—in ink—“? It doesn’t add up.” The irony, of course, is that these intrusions on […]
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