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• More Nostalgia

  

  Every now and then I am visited with a feeling of great happiness at being in just the right place and doing just the right thing at just the right time.... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Thankful

  

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  Posted on 20 October 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Letter from My Great Great Grandmother

  

  October is a month of memories and honoring ancestors--culminating in Halloween, and All Souls Day. So it was particularly fitting that I should get an email... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Less

  

  A more-or-less failed novelist embarks on a round-the-world tour, fulfilling invitations to strange literary events--all to avoid the wedding of his... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman

  

  I haven't read many mysteries recently--at some point they all began to seem the same. But I was blown away by Lippman's recent standalone. Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Mid-October

  

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  Posted on 16 October 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie Is Hard at It

  

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  Posted on 15 October 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

  

  I was curious to see how Atwood handled a return to Gilead after so much time, a television series, and a world that is slipping ever nearer to the sanctimoniou... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Hunter's Moon

  

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  Posted on 13 October 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Pigeon Thoughts

  

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  Posted on 12 October 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

  

  "That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth." Tim O'Brien Just as The Overstory told truths about... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie's Pet Plant

  

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  Posted on 10 October 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Autumn is Tip-toeing In

  

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  Posted on 09 October 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Waiting for Rain . . .

  

  After several months of no rain, we were promised relief. A cloudy morning made us hopeful. By mid afternoon, the radar showed rain upon us. I could see it... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The Overstory by Richard Powers

  

  This is a magnificent, important, necessary book. My book-pusher friend Marianna lent it to me and by the time I was halfway through, I realized I would want... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Bugtussle--A Repost from Ten Years Ago

  

  Bugtussle -- there's one in Alabama. Also Oklahoma, Kentucky, Texas, and Tennessee. All small towns. And there were several real bug tussles going on amid the... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Moving Into Fall

  

  With Josie's 'help' yesterday, I began putting away the summer blue and white stuff and bringing out my fall tchotchkes. It doesn't feel like fall but it's... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Feeling Colorless

  

  Nothing that some rain--and 45*'s resignation or implosion wouldn't cure... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie and the Terrible Twos

  

  I am Josie. Sometimes I am oppositional. Like when Meema said I was doing a good job using my spoon. So I had to eat the rest of my yogurt with the little end o... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Another Sunrise . . . Another Whistleblower

  

  The Orange Embarrassment's unfitness for office--any public office--has been obvious from long before he began his rise to power. Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY