Catherine Over Water: an excerpt
Greetings, Dear Readers! In case you missed it, my latest novel Catherine Over Water has arrived in the world! It was published this past week by She Writes Press in [...]
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Sep, 2026
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Nov, 2024
Thanksgiving Prayers
This Thanksgiving I am grateful for family, friends, home, and the beauty of wilderness so close to where I live. I pray and affirm that we are a kind and [...]
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Sep, 2024
Equinox Thoughts
It’s been a weird summer. In fact, it’s been a weird summer regarding the word “weird,” so maybe in the interest of accuracy I should say it’s been an unusual [...]
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Jan, 2023
In the Aftermath of the Wind
Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: twenty past midnight, what used to live under your bed, if you come to a fork take it, why are you [...]
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Nov, 2022
Happy Thanksgiving
I pray and affirm that we are a courageous and compassionate people, eager to heal racism, misogyny, homophobia, and hatred, to create a culture that values all life, that treasures [...]
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Nov, 2021
November Musing
I hardly need to say this because we all know it, but hey, it’s been a weird couple of years. This November I am grateful for family members and friends who [...]
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Oct, 2021
Life in the City
Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: she’s lost control; unplugged; we had a falling out; a far more pleasant pursuit; loved searching for shiny treasures; a pack of [...]
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Mar, 2021
The Child’s Notebook
I wrote this piece with my Thursday night group. I changed most of the prompts, but perhaps you may still recognize them: the child, September, denigration, breakage, loss of youth, rust, crawling [...]
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Nov, 2020
Happy Thanksgiving Week!
If you and your loved ones are safe and healthy this year, then you have reason to be thankful. Please do all you can to stay that way! The safest thing [...]
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Nov, 2020
Greetings
My cat Zuzu and I just spent a contemplative ten minutes watching a bird darting about the branches of the camellia bushes that grow just outside my dining room window. [...]