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• Seen in January

  

  GREAT SMOKIES WRITING PROGRAM CLASS Critique workshop (forty pages worth) for those with a novel in progress -- just begun, partway there, or finished and in... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• As She Left It

  

  is my most recent read -- and I think the first Catriona McPherson novel I've read. An Anthoiny award winner last year, it's set in modern day northern England... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Angels and Ghosts in My Garden?

  

  What is this mysterious orb? An angel? A ghost? Or something else ? (Cue Twilight Zone theme . . Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Finding William Patton Jones

  

  The following is an email received from a volunteer in the Archives of Maryville College: Thank you for contacting Maryville College about the ledger that you... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Random Tweets

  

  Does anyone else get a weird feeling when that little sign pops up on Facebook and says that So-and-so is following you? Have you ever been talking to someone... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Goin' to California (in My Mind)

  

  Yesterday was cold and wet . . . so I revisited scenes from 2012 and a trip to Santa Cruz. Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• W Not M . . . and On Inter-conectedness . . .

  

  Back to that Ledger. A closer look tells me it's W. Jones -- not M. I remain fascinated with this guy with his lost baseball (10 cents,) his 'segars' and plugs... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Some Peaceful Pictures After Yesterday's Wild Rumpus. . .

  

  GREAT SMOKIES WRITING PROGRAM CLASS Critique workshop (forty pages worth) for those with a novel in progress -- just begun, partway there, or finished and in... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Romper Room

  

  Despite what it looks like here, Willa has decided Bob is lots of fun. (Same video on YouTube HERE) And then Ali joined in the fun . . . . Yep, Bob is one of th... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Accounts of M. Jones -- 1908-'09-'10

  

  I spent yesterday afternoon turning out the drawers of the secretary in the living room and removing lots of extraneous stuff - some of which belonged to my... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Martin Luther King Jr.

  

  GREAT SMOKIES WRITING PROGRAM CLASS Critique workshop (forty pages worth) for those with a novel in progress -- just begun, partway there, or finished and in... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Objection!

  

  GREAT SMOKIES WRITING PROGRAM CLASS Critique workshop (forty pages worth) for those with a novel in progress -- just begun, partway there, or finished and in... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Progress . . .

  

  GREAT SMOKIES WRITING PROGRAM CLASS Critique workshop (forty pages worth) for those with a novel in progress -- just begun, partway there, or finished and in... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Baker's Dozen of Student Books

  

  Jayna on Facebook asked for this . . . All these classes I teach and workshops I lead have been (I hope) helpful to budding authors in various ways. Here's a... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Fogged In

  

  GREAT SMOKIES WRITING PROGRAM CLASS Critique workshop (forty pages worth) for those with a novel in progress -- just begun, partway there, or finished and in... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Bob, A Dog

  

  His name is Bob and he came to us because my friend Candace posted his picture on Facebook, saying that he'd spent the last few freezing nights on a chain with ... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Rainy, Foggy Day . . . And Then

  

  Another dog came to live with us! Of which, more tomorrow. . . Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Coming Events

  

  In the coming months, I'll be doing various writing workshops aimed at in-process novelists and at those who'd like to give it a try. The classes I lead are... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• For Liz . . .

  

  For my dear friend Liz and her husband Larry. The beautiful home they having built on the other side of our mountain burned to the ground in the night. Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Pirate Willa

  

  GREAT SMOKIES WRITING PROGRAM CLASS Critique workshop (forty pages worth) for those with a novel in progress -- just begun, partway there, or finished and in... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2015 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY