Summer has flown. Back-to-school commercials are on TV, kids are heading off to college, and sooner than later the school bus will drive by with the neighbor’s children every morning at 8:07 and cause my dog Andy to bark furiously (I won’t mind; he’s 14 1/2 and every day with him is a gift). [Read more…] about August Already
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Quote of the Week for July 30
“Writing is easy: all you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead.” — Gene Fowler
Keeping the Creative Juices Flowing
For the past two weeks, I’ve been flat out working towards an Aug. 1 deadline to finish my book proposal, a project that’s been hovering for months. The original deadline was June 1, but other projects came along and threw me off course, not to mention the endless temptations of warm summer days. The distractions kept coming and I thought, if I don’t buckle down and do this, this project will never get done. [Read more…] about Keeping the Creative Juices Flowing
Quote of the Week for July 23
“Yet, these same hours are the ones whose burdens school us in quietness and deep response and ripen us to wisdom and invention.” — Herman Hesse
Moonbird: Endurance And Survival
My husband, an expert birder, sent me an article the other day on a red knot — a kind of shorebird — that researchers tagged “B95” in Argentina back in 1995. At the time, the researchers thought the bird was two years old. Now age 19 and well past his expected life span of four years, B95 is still making his annual migrations between the Canadian Artic breeding grounds and his South American wintering grounds. The total mileage accrued to date on his little wings is more than 350,000 miles, the same distance from the earth to the moon and halfway back. For his remarkable achievement, he’s now called “Moonbird.” [Read more…] about Moonbird: Endurance And Survival