Field notes

July 31, 2024 25

The Big Swims

If I’m being honest—IIBH—2024 started out rough for this writer. Cancer diagnosis, followed by surgery [...]

January 1, 2024 2

Peace

I love this morning’s poem about peace on the Rattle Magazine website: Abby E. Murray’s [...]

December 4, 2023 2

Training

In Decembers past, I’ve shared resources for writers and readers; this last post of the year is in that [...]

November 1, 2023 0

Necessary

What about our own work? It may never be read; is it necessary? If not, maybe we can save ourselves the trouble. We can give up writing or painting or philosophizing for extra sleep in the morning. Or for more time outdoors. Or for more time listening to baseball. [...]

October 1, 2023 0

Place

Literature of place has been with us forever, from the heroic journeys there and back again (think Homer and [...]

August 30, 2023 0

More

“Less is more,” German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe said, sometime around the turn of the [...]

July 1, 2023 2

Summer

This summer day will burn hot, here and around the hemisphere. Last night the evening air chilled enough that [...]

May 31, 2023 12

Finish

The heartbreaking 2016 Antarctic crossing of Henry Worsley, who came within 126 miles of his goal, recently [...]

May 1, 2023 0

Extraordinary

This quote by Julia Roberts came to mind recently as I watched her 2022 film Ticket to Paradise (also [...]

April 4, 2023 8

Rest

Am I the only one here who can’t rest when the moon is waxing? Who sits up sipping chai at two a.m. on [...]

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