What a difference a day makes!

What a difference a day makes!

What a difference a day makes! Sunday, the sun shone, the snow receded like an outgoing tide.               Hundreds of robins landed to inspect the newly revealed field. Between morning and night, the garden gate was liberated from...

Learning to Tweet

I’ve been learning to tweet for months now, and I’m still not sure why. For a Friday Fun post back in 2011, NHWN bloggers answered the question, Love It or Hate It? Three loved Twitter, three were less thrilled, and I wasn’t on board. Now I am. I decided to join when...
Spring Came Late, Part Two

Spring Came Late, Part Two

Here’s Spring Came Late, Part Two – an excerpt from my not-yet-published novel Elegy for a Girl, a heartbreaking love story between Mary Grace “Girl” Knight and her father, Harlan, whose hill-farm is bisected by construction of the new interstate highway in 1958....
Spring Came Late, Part Two

Spring Came Late, Part One

Spring Came Late is an excerpt from my not-yet-published novel Elegy for a Girl, a heartbreaking love story between Mary Grace “Girl” Knight and her father, Harlan, whose hill-farm is bisected by construction of the new interstate highway in 1958. Spring is arriving...

Speaking in Public

As nice as it is to enjoy casual dress every day of the week and labor in solitude behind a computer, there are times that require a writer to get dressed, leave home and speak in public. I will be doing this next week. Washing my face and finding clean clothes aside,...