I’ve been busy this summer; I’ve done some new things. To start with, I planted a garden. It’s a small garden, just a single raised bed, but it has provided us with a seemingly-endless supply of lettuce over the past number of months. We’ve also enjoyed fresh, organically grown radishes and carrots and my zucchini…
Month: August 2011
Linky Love and Sweet Peas
I wish there was some way to let you smell these beautiful sweet peas that are in my garden right now. They’re almost finished now, but at the peak of their blooming time, the sweet scent of them wafted up and into my open bedroom window at night. Heavenly! I’ve fallen in love with Google…
My Writing Life – Writing Prompt
“We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.” May Lamberton Becker “In youth we learn; in age we understand.” Marie Ebner-Eschenbach “Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.” Anne Bradstreet “The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly,…
My Writing Life – Hot August Nights
Last month at my writing group I shared Natalie Goldberg’s rules of writing practice and I wrote about those rules here. I was most inspired by her advice to “go for the jugular”. I shared an exerpt with the group from Goldberg’s Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life. “This summer I taught a writing workshop with Kate…
Friday Ups and Downs
It’s a good day today – some ups and some downs. I have much to be thankful for. The sun is shining and it’s warm outside. The local weather is calling for the temperature to go up to the 80s for the weekend. As of about thirty minutes ago I am officially “on vacation” –…