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• The Bread and the Knife by Dawn Drzal

  

  This delightful memoir is so tasty that I devoured it almost in one sitting. I was drawn to it because in the spring I'll be doing a workshop at Isothermal... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The Nightshade Family

  

  Good title for a sit-com, right? But I'm talking about vegetables. My little porch garden continues to give me lots of pleasure along with a continuing small... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie Makes the Most of the End of Summer

  

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  Posted on 17 September 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Jimsonweed

  

  These dramatic seed pods carry a warning -- poison! Jimsonweed (Datura stramonium) is common around here -- this one showed up in our garden. Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Red Moon

  

  Last night's moon made me think of a favorite poem by Garcia Lorca. . . sorry I can't manage the diacritical marks for the Spanish. Cancion de Jinete Song of th... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The Daily Miracle

  

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  Posted on 14 September 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

  

  I'm not sure why it took me so long to get around to reading this brilliant novel that a friend brought me months ago. It reminds of one of the reasons I love t... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie Does A Puppet Show

  

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  Posted on 12 September 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• 9/11/2001

  

  Our painting class was quietly working away, soft music in the background from a classical music station, when an announcer broke in with the horrific news. Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie Insisted

  

  She just had to take pictures with my little Sony. I showed her how it worked but she insisted on bringing it up to her face as I do with my Nikon. We're going... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• When the Last Bee Has Been Poisoned . . .

  

  When the last bee has been poisoned, When the last sweet drop of honey is gone, When precious plants are pollinated by hand (Produce too expensive for the... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• How It Happens by W.S. Merwin

  

  The sky said I am watching to see what you can make out of nothing I was looking up and I said I thought you were supposed to be doing that the sky said Many ar... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie Has the Playground All to Herself

  

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  Posted on 07 September 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Any Mushroom Experts Out There?

  

  These guys showed up in my greenhouse and I'd very much like to now what they are. My little Golden Nature Guide to Non-Flowering Plants leads me to think they... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Shopping Buggy Corrals Make Me Think of Kant

  

  Sometimes it's the littlest of little things that can make me wonder what's wrong with folks. As in, whoever returned that second buggy in such way as to block... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Falling Toward Fall

  

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  Posted on 04 September 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

  

  I practically inhaled this novel, reading in bed late into the night as I remember doing with Gone With the Wind about sixty years ago. Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie Is Back

  

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  Posted on 02 September 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• September Song

  

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  Posted on 01 September 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Gagged

  

  Not me. Not yet, anyway. But a friend of mine, a fellow writer, was treated to a 24-hour suspension from Facebook for posting 'hate speech' --a link to an... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2019 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY