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• Phone Close Ups

  

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  Posted on 28 January 2022 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• McMullen Circle by Heather Newton

  

  Deeply satisfying, this novel in twelve linked stories explores the intertwined lives of families at a boarding school. Set in Georgia during the turbulent year... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2022 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Bad Cold

  

  I have been laid low by the cold Josie and her family have been hit by. They are all right now. I slept most of yesterday and feel slightly better today. More... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2022 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Evening in the East--Reflections

  

  I continue to reflect on The Warmth of Other Suns which I recently blogged about, even I read news reports of hysterical opposition to so-called Critical Race... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2022 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Random

  

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  Posted on 24 January 2022 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• A Letter from Judy--repost

  

  When I teach classes in novel writing, an exercise that has proven quite useful is to have my students write letters to themselves in the voice of their main... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2022 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie's Long Haul

  

  Notice anything different? I got a haircut and now I have bangs! Also, I have fingernail polish, different colors on each nail.I stayed with Meema and Grumpy... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2022 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• The Warmth of Other Suns

  

  A compelling and necessary read, this narrative- enhanced documentation of The Great Migration that, between 1915 to 1970, saw almost six million Black... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2022 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Sunshine, At Last

  

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  Posted on 19 January 2022 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Hi/Lo Tech Solution to Cold Sheets

  

  We seem to have come through the worst of it--I'm writing this Monday morning. Power is still on, but folks are being asked not to travel due to uncleared... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2022 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• New from the New Shop

  

  As Josie no longer sleeps in her little bed and keeping her many toys away from Jenny is difficult, I asked John to make a toy chest to go at the foot of the... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2022 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• In a Crystal Ball

  

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  Posted on 16 January 2022 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Four Brown Hounds

  

  Jenny is the latest incarnation of my favorite sort of dog--a reddish-brown, flop-eared hound. Her long legs have a good bit of white on them and she's quite a... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2022 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie Does Art and Other Stuff

  

  When I spend the day with Meema, the first thing I like to do (after pancakes) is to paint.I tried some new things--a purple outline with purple lines across it... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2022 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Taciturn Thursday

  

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  Posted on 13 January 2022 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Bloody Bread

  

  When a friend of mine from high school days posted this on Facebook, I was intrigued. And since I had a half a bottle of Bloody Mary mix left over from... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2022 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Hamnet

  

  This was meant to be Tuesday's post, but I clicked the wrong thing. So it goes.A wonderfully imagined and beautifully written account of Shakespeare's... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2022 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• On A Rainy Day

  

  Sunday was cold and rainy--very rainy. And we got word that Josie had been exposed to Covid at her school on Wednesday and we had been exposed to Josie on... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2022 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Remembering NC Mountainwoman

  

  As I sat at the dining room table, taking pictures of the winter birds at the feeder, I was reminded of a long-time and sadly missed blog friend, Carolyn Powell... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2022 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Josie's Snow Day

  

  There was no pre-school on Friday because it snowed so I spent the day with Meema.Do you know what a geode is? It is a rock like a hollow ball and when you brea... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2022 CREATIVITY, PHOTOGRAPHY