I Wasn’t Gonna Go I never intended to drive 150 miles to Totality during Monday’s solar eclipse, not when I read that 200,000 people were expected to flood the parts of northern Vermont that would go dark. I thought 97% dark in my own back yard would be enough. With a pair of protective glasses […]
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 […]
“Writing to the Light” Welcomes Back the Sun
Third Annual Writing to the Event Writing Circle December Doldrums I used to regularly stall in the December Doldrums, when moving my pen across the page felt like trudging through wet, ankle deep, slush. As the calendar winds down and the northern hemisphere tilts away from the sun, my thoughts can turn as dark as […]
Write Now!
This afternoon’s writing time was unexpectedly pushed aside to pick up liquid Ibuprofen, a pill crusher, a WaterPik, and energy drinks for my husband, who’s had his broken jaw wired together this morning and will be on a liquid diet for weeks. I rushed home to cook dinner for friends arriving from Great Britain momentarily, […]
Persistence
While I’m hiking The Long Trail, I’m reposting old favorites. This one originally published January 20, 2011. Seeing the galleys for my first book was like seeing a sonogram of a baby that’s been growing inside me for years. I was giddy with excitement to see the cover, the type, and the design of the […]
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