Once again these are the books that stood out for me among those I read this past year. They were not necessarily published in 2011; many of them appeared decades ago, in fact. Fiction Native, by William Haywood Henderson. Henderson’s gorgeous, delicate, but also ripping first novel explores some themes similar to those in [...]
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Standout Reads of 2011
Posted in Books, Literary Inspiration, Poetry, Reading, Writing, tagged book choices 2011, great reads, recommended reading on January 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Is Menopause the Glass Ceiling?
Posted in Grief, Life Changes, Professional Choices, Relationships, Writing, tagged disability, glass ceiling, menopause, professional obstacles, transitions, women's issues on December 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The other day I had lunch with someone who is a mix of colleague, old friend, mentor, and teacher. I’m not sure how he sees me, but I look up to him a lot. That day, I had been spending time with my thoughts and my pages, but hadn’t spoken to anyone out loud. When [...]
Broken
Posted in Books, Boulder Fire, Literary Inspiration, Outdoor activities, Wildfire, Writing, tagged creativity, numinous, prayer, spirituality, survival, woo-woo on April 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Walking nurtures an open mind… The sky is like an upturned plate—a big platter of openness filled with thoughts.” –Liz Caile, A Life at Treeline In Deep Survival, Laurence Gonzales writes that people who are lost in the wilderness and survive often have in common that they prayed. Those who are found but only [...]
Pushing Through to Find the Story
Posted in Literary Inspiration, Wildfire, Writing, tagged #boulderfire, fourmile canyon fire, moving on, ptsd, writing life on March 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Today I’ll just link to Andi O’Conor’s New York Times interview about the Four Mile Canyon Fire. Apparently she talks to people as beautifully as she writes. I wish she were building her new home right next door to mine. A Colorado Blogger on Losing Her Home to a Fire In the article and in [...]
Resolutions I Know I Can Stick To
Posted in Life Changes, Literary Inspiration, Writing, tagged chocolate, food, fun, new year's resolutions on January 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last year I set goals, and I made a lot of progress. But I realized that I didn’t always have control over how far I could get. I mean, I avoided things like “win the Nobel prize,” but even targets such as “send out a set of poems every week” weren’t always doable. I got [...]
Underground
Posted in Art, Literary Inspiration, Writing, tagged silence, writing life on November 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »
All I’m doing for my blog post this week is linking to this illustration, by Alex Andreev, on Condalmo’s blog. I’d copy it here, but I’m not sure about permissions. One click on the first link will take you there, and if you’re a writer or any other kind of person who needs a little [...]
Evacuations
Posted in Boulder Fire, Economy, Grief, Parenting, Wildfire, Writing, tagged #boulderfire, Economy, fourmile canyon fire, life transitions, writing life on October 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
It was an ordinary-enough grief. My son packed up his van, got in, and drove off to college. I cried. I threw myself into my partner’s arms. He just drove off, I said. Yes, he said. That’s what they do. Every mother comes to this. Whatever it was you went through to bring them [...]
Midlife Crisis, Take #47
Posted in Life Changes, Relationships, Writing, tagged gender issues, hormone replacement therapy, HRT, menopause, midlife crisis, women's issues on September 1, 2010 | 10 Comments »
I live in fear of interruption. It’s partly because this isn’t Europe and a good chunk of the people from there with peasant wiring came here and despite my ancestry I’m not one of them. I got a hunter-gatherer throwback gene, or some decadent aristocrat raped a great-grandmother, or something. I sleep later than most [...]
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