Category: Blog
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Why the Portal Doesn’t Roar: Insight into my story, Exit Interview
Photo: Smug, a sculpture by Tony Smith, at Glenstone in Maryland. I have been meaning to write about that place and I will. That place has absolutely captured my attention and I can’t fully put my thumb on why. Anyway, this isn’t what the portals in my story look like, but I like that I…
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Easing Back In, Full of Thought
Photo: Snow in the flower box, dead leaves and old flower stems crumbling and turning in to dirt for the next seeds to be planted not long from now. In a different time, I’d complain about the cold and wistfully write about longing for Spring. But this year… This year, we’re starting with a blockbuster…
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Doing The Most (And Therefore, Not Writing)
Photo: Photo within a photo, both taken at the beautiful (and allegedly haunted) MIT Endicott House in Dedham, Massachusetts. The perfect place for a writing retreat. I had every intention of posting my serial story episode last week. So many good intentions… But the thing is, I was wearing my leader hat last week. I…
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A New Season of Self: Or, The Next Evolution of This Rock Kid’s Mom
Photo: An electric guitar. Prized possession of my kiddo. As a writer, I feel a particular, if curious, satisfaction at the “tentpole” moments in life. The “firsts” my kids go through are generally inevitable and predictable. They also rely on life going the way life goes: which is often meandering and apt to distraction. Everyone…
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I’m in FIYAH Magazine Today! (And I still can’t believe it!)
Graphic above: The absolutely gorgeous cover for FIYAH #31: Spacefaring Aunties. Cover art by Cyan Daly. Today is probably a year in the making (or somewhere close). FIYAH put out their submission schedule for 2024 and I looked at the list, saw Spacefaring Aunties, and my brain exploded with ideas. None of those ideas made…
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The Echo of Memory
Photo: A perfectly clear blue sky over Maryland on a very normal day. I often describe days with that color sky as “technocolor perfect.” That’s the thought I had on that Tuesday morning in 2001: it’s a technocolor dream kind of day. I don’t know how many other East Coast folk who remember that day…
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Starting a New Project and Writing What I Know
Photo: Messy handwriting scribbled across notebook pages set against a monitor on a messy, messy desk. On the monitor, Scrivener, beloved software for authors like me. A blank page open and ready to receive an interpretation of the scribbles in legible, pixilated text form. Eventually, that translation turned into episode one of Silverwood: a Serial…
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When the Cicada Song Ends
Photo: A spider floating ominously against a cloudy sky. Apparently it is big-ass spiders makin’ webs season here in Maryland. This one decided to start one outside of my office window. I am very safely behind glass while taking this picture. It’s too hot to turn on the stove, even with central air. I stood…
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The Energy It Takes to Flower
Photo: A wild morning glory wraps around a towering Dahlia flower yet to bloom. I had every intention to write a blog post here this summer, but I set my creativity toward mothering and “real” writing. I wrote 2 complete short stories and 2 incomplete ones this summer. That isn’t a lot and yet is…
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