Read harder or not at all
Sometimes, when life is busy or tough, knowing your comfort zone and residing there is good and, even more, necessary. Sometimes you need to push the reading envelope a little.
Who owns this book?
What’s still out there that you haven’t yet managed to read?
Listen up
How are you going to capture my attention in this great flood of podcasts?
A matter of gravity: women in space
When Tiptree wrote, she wasn’t extrapolating. She was responding. She always was. Her fiction is as harsh as the truth.
Staying blue
I had captured the slow steps of someone moving through the low, dark space.
Free-range thoughts
There’s advice everywhere about how to write more, or find new photos, or set challenges to create new things. That’s not what I need. I need a way to shut out all the new stuff, so I can find a more meaningful image or write a better story.
The well
When I open the big book of writing, there’s often a dank, mossy well to draw from. It’s deep and it’s far from pretty.
Marginalia
I write in the margins of books. Not just text books. Bookish books. Fiction books. Non-fiction books. Beautiful books. Books.
A moment of your time
Other days the skies are full of grey, rolling clouds and the paths shimmer from the rain. I’ve been trying to capture that eloquent moment between the rain and the sun.
Found: a story
I touched my wife’s arm. “We’re not alone.”