What: I am currently working on a collection of poems I may submit for chapbook publication. I seem to have consistent themes in my writing: nature, family/neighbor/community, and grief/loss. Why: Writing poetry enables me to live fully in the moment; feel it, smell it, hear it, see it. That moment may be in the past or in the present and finding the words to make that moment live … [Read more...]
A Corgi Halloween
I admit it -- I like to dress my Welsh Pembroke corgi for Halloween. My husband looks at our dog, shakes his head and says to her, "Clementine, have some pride." lol! She enjoys Halloween because she gets a treat and lots of attention from trick-or-treaters who come to our door. They often want to take her picture. I don't get crazy. Nothing constricting or uncomfortable and I always consider her … [Read more...]
Fall colors biking on Paint Creek Trail
Couldn't ask for a better day It was a sunny Sunday afternoon, 64 degrees, the sound of fall leaves crunching under the tires of my bicycle, the crisp smell of pine and autumn in the air, and my best friend alongside me. The husband and I biked 16.5 miles on the Paint Creek Trail, wondering if this would be the last warm day before the weather turned too cold to bike. We'd hoped to get … [Read more...]
What women want when speaking about sexual assault
Nearly every woman I know has told me about one or more times in which she was sexually assaulted, molested, threatened or raped, or they personally know someone who was sexually assaulted, molested, threatened or raped. I was molested as a child, most vividly by a stranger in Woolworth's in the 60s, and I am also a victim of date rape. I hesitated to tell anyone until recently, … [Read more...]
Meeting Readers at Books By the Banks
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become. -- Ursula K. Le Guin The best part of the Books by the Banks book festival at the Duke Energy Center in Cincinnati, Ohio was meeting so many engaging and interested readers! Engaged Readers Nearly every visitor … [Read more...]
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