Tag: Writing
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Long, long ago and far away…another place, a different time
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Jennie and I just got back from a four-day visit with friends in Santa Fe, New Mexico. We stayed in the Las Campañas area, home of one of the three couples that made up our traveling group. It was a beautiful place on the high mesa, populated by piñon pines…
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Musing of a poet on the rim of the world
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I recently submitted a poem to the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest…I did not win the poetry contest—however, I did get an email from the sponsor, Catamaran Literary Reader, informing me that they were “releasing” my poem back to me. (I hadn’t realized they were holding my work captive, but I…
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On Writing about Strong Women
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Literature is full of classic novels portraying strong female characters. Titles like Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina, Pride and Prejudice, and My Ántonia, to name just a few, have graced old and new bookshelves for many years. History, as depicted in both fiction and nonfiction, has been shaped in large part…
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A while back, I built a Little Free Lending Library
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A while back, I built a Little Free Lending Library. You know the kind: a boxy receptacle with shelves, a pitched roof, and small swinging glass door housing used books on various subjects.
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A test of faith. Please pray for my tree.
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This may be a test of faith. For the past several years, we have been growing in our front yard a very tall, very large Zutano avocado tree. It’s on the sunny side of our home, so Jennie and I most evenings take our glass of wine out to a…
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Down the coast from my house sits Villa Maria Del Mar
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About three blocks down the coast from my house sits Villa Maria Del Mar, a stately three-story wooden hotel first built in the 1890s to accommodate mostly Catholic vacationers
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A car trip through the beautiful Sierras
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This, in a roundabout way, brings me to a local issue regarding the renaming of Cabrillo College
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The nice thing about having a blog?
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You can write anything you want and be assured very few people will actually read it.
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A poem about the Ohlone people
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While writing and rewriting some poems recently, I realized I never wrote a poem about the Ohlone people that inhabit my novel. In so many ways, I want to pay tribute to them and yet not speak for them. It’s not for me to define their worldview, I can only…