What to do about the weather? Live with it and adjust as best I can. Today, for example, the thermometer is at an unbelievable -2 degrees. So, on such a morning, a hot cup of Folgers is at hand, you can be sure. In looking at past posts, I came across one from a few […]
To Make a Book
·If you haven’t yet made a book, you should try it. It’s a fun, rewarding activity. I suppose, in a way, journals qualify. After all, the covers are there, but the pages are blank. It’s up to the writer to fill in those blanks with words. Children love making books. In kindergarten, we made dinosaur […]
So, That’s the Reason
I sometimes ponder this question: why do I write? Writing takes up hours, days, weeks, months of my life. Writing is pouring my heart and soul into the life of my characters. It is taking words and forming them into a person. But then (and this is the best part) using only words to make that […]
Catalpa
·One night in Oklahoma, several years ago a strong wind came through. Oklahoma’s winds are not to be trifled with and this one was no exception. It wasn’t a twisting, swirling wind of a tornado, but a straight, hard one that blew over a huge catalpa tree that had stood in my parents’ back yard […]
The Raven’s Long Shadow
·“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping as of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.” – Edgar Allan Poe. Long ago, I memorized The Raven. I was fortunate […]