WALKING AND WRITING AS A WAY OF LIFE Walking and Writing are a way of life for me. Hiking over the uneven terrain of uncertainty helps shake my ideas into place, and I return to my desk with mental clarity. When it’s emotional upset that blocks my progress, walking helps calm me, and being in […]
Living in Place
Walking and Writing Toward Wisdom
WRITING My colleagues here have written eloquently about the value of journaling. Lisa describes journaling as A Method for Creative Discoveries, and Jamie lists 10 Ways Journaling Makes You a Better Writer. Like both of them, I’ve been journaling since I was quite young. As an only girl in a household of boys, writing was […]
Vermonter By Choice: Tim Shafer, Country Doctor
Tim Shafer moved to Vermont in 1984 to serve as a National Health Service Corps physician in a medically underserved area. After completing his residency in Pennsylvania, he wanted to return to New England, where he’d grown up and where he’d attended medical school. He’s lived in the West River Valley ever since. Practicing rural […]
Making the Most of a Post
Renovation & Revision posted recently on Living in Place, the blog on my website. It could have just as easily been posted here, as it’s about craft. Specifically, it’s about revision, which is my current work. This is not the first time that a post for one blog is appropriate for another, and that’s not […]
Renovation & Revision
I’m deep into a kitchen renovation and the revision of a novel. Both are all-consuming, requiring full immersion and intense decision-making. As a result, I’ve become something of a bore. It can’t be helped. KITCHEN RENOVATION The kitchen renovation has been long in the planning, so it’s a bit disingenuous to say that it started […]
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