Month: September 2009

Autumn’s End

Autumn ended on Sunday. Until Sunday, September seemed unusually–and wonderfully–mild: the garden was still growing and producing; we were in short sleeves and sweating as we worked outside. Suddenly it’s cold, the […]

Reading Roundup

What’s on my nightstand? The Morgue and Me, by John C. Ford. Generally speaking, mystery’s not my thing. Mysteries tend to be suspenseful and scary, and I avoid suspenseful and scary like […]

Disaster or Design?

You say “disaster”; I say “design.” It’s a fine line between a royal screw-up and a fascinating development, between failure and discovery. I attempted to turn my six quarts of lowbush cranberries […]

Designing

I’ve staked out a table in the Darn Good Room, covered it with books, fabrics, fibers, needles, ribbon, and my clipboard with scrap paper for taking notes. I’m designing and testing different […]

Winter and Writing

As I prepare for and anticipate winter, I look forward to a return to novel writing and other long projects. In my mind, summer is for short writing and winter is for […]