Tag: teaching
-
Quiet Thoughts: My Favorite Chicken Caesar Salad
Photo: This is not a chicken ceasar salad. This is… homegrown tomato and cucumber served with a little balsamic vinaigrette on a summer afternoon. Turns out, I don’t take a lot of photos of salads, though I eat them frequently. I suppose I should fix that? Anyway, the salad of this article is from a…
-
Back to Square One and Other Thoughts at 41
Photo: I took a full-blown “old lady tumble” on Tuesday afternoon. One of those “I don’t know what I tripped on” sort of falls that sent me forward onto my driveway, hard on the wrist and the knee and on the foot. Being young (for a while longer) and foolish (likely forever), I of course…
-
The Clutter of What is Done and What is Left Undone
Sometime in mid-August, we got our first egg. That egg, the one pictured. A milestone. A mileegg. Some of my dearer friends have made full fun of me, considering me to be a reactionary fool. Don’t get chickens when egg prices are up. Inevitably, the price will fall (true) and you’ll have spent a stupid…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Wait… Was This a Cliche´ the Whole Time!?
Photo credit: My writerly friend who took this picture on Sunday! Thanks friend! And thanks to my other friend (all interconnected!) who said “yes” when I asked him to do this silly presentation with me. 🙂 Last week, I had the great pleasure of going to my very first in-person The Muse and the Marketplace…
-
Tangible, Intangible, and Precious Optimism
Despite the world appearing to be coming apart at the seams, I have dear friends who are having babies. Not second babies. First babies. Babies who were created through love and optimism that perhaps the world is ok, or is going to be ok, or can be made ok. My eldest son turned 13 recently…
Multiplicity: A Writer's Blog 