Review

Audio books listened to:  Nine Favorite: No Passengers Beyond This Point, by Gennifer Choldenko (Caveat: The Graveyard Book will always be my very favorite.  As my children grow, I find it more mournful, but each summer that we listen it’s like running into an old friend.) Sharks sighted: None (Thank God!) Boat rides taken: Two…

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Lost

  Has anyone seen my summer? It was here just yesterday. I swear, I took good care of it. I might have taken my eyes off of it, just for a moment, to look at a sunset. I did forget to hold it tightly on the water slide, but we were going so fast. It could…

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Summer Lovin'

I have lofty blog posts, planned, people.  Lofty.  Posts about the spaces I consider sacred and how they influence my writing, posts about character development and settings and plot, or the lack thereof.  The problem is summer keeps getting in the way.  Somehow, summer manages to have an abundance of time, and yet not enough…

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Garden Spells

Summer in New England is short and temperamental.  The warm weather comes and goes in a flash, the sun visits and then retreats. It’s fickle and gorgeous and a season to appreciate but not to count on. Because we were away for two weeks, and then recovering for another week or so, I missed the…

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