Greetings! How do we love our libraries? Let us count the ways: in libraries we can exercise our freedom to read, expand our understanding of the world, enjoy a community of folks who value literature. When was the last time you browsed aisles of your public library and discovered a … [Read more…]
Greetings, writer and non-writer friends! Are you in a pinch with a project? For help with any challenging task (or even a little one), consider what I call the S.U.D.S. method. It deserves a lot of credit for helping me complete my recent book, From the Porch to the Page. … [Read more…]
This post is a bit of travel trivia. But first, remember the pool party game called “Marco Polo?” A group of swimmers, usually kids, toss a ball back and forth in a swimming pool (or close to shore at the beach), splash each other a whole lot, and while they … [Read more…]
Greetings! If you need some rest from worries and cares, I offer this poem from Wordsworth. It often soothes me; I hope it does the same for you. Whenever even its title comes to my mind, I soon take a walk, or go for a swim, or at least watch … [Read more…]
Greetings! This Sunday, July 10, 2022, at 9:00 pm EDT, CNN is starting a six-part series titled, “Patagonia: Life on the Edge of the World.” Turns out that in 2015 Hoyt and I were there. We were Edges on the edge of the world 🙂 in Patagonia as part of … [Read more…]