Living In Place
Baby Brother Becomes Writing Buddy
When my baby brother was born not quite sixty years ago, I never would have pegged him as my future writing buddy. He wasn't the sister I'd hoped for, and at first, all he did...
Volunteering at the BCJC
Brattleboro Community Justice Center - BCJC I went to jail in 2005 to teach writing to inmates, and I got out thinking, there’s got to be a better way. It turns out, there is....
Home Alone
Everyone cleared out of the house yesterday, and for the first time in a long while, I find myself home alone. I was only slightly disappointed that I couldn't go with those...
A New Strategy for Writing in Summer
Summers used to interfere with my writing. There was so much to do – both farm work and fun – that I used to despair about advancing narrative projects and meeting deadlines. But...
Cherries & Time
On Sunday, Tim and I harvested our first-ever crop of sour cherries. To say that this took most of the day would be an understatement. We planted the tree almost ten years ago,...
A Demonstration of Point of View
Point of View is the perspective from which a story is told. One of the best ways to understand Point of View is by example, so here are two versions of the same story told from...