It was amazing the things a person could get used to when they really had no other choice.” Vivian Barz, Forgotten Bones Everything seems to be getting back to “normal” or what normal used to be pre-Covid. I’m back at the gym (maskless), going to the grocery store instead of getting food delivered, and contemplating… Continue reading moving forward
Category: Author Quotes
One of those March days!
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. Charles Dickens
Firecakes and monkey bread
There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk. And that is my answer, when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love?” M.F.K. Fisher in ‘The Gastronomical Me’ I opened my first restaurant when I was eight in my parents kitchen.… Continue reading Firecakes and monkey bread
Great Rules of Writing
Do not put statements in the negative form. And don’t start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Unqualified superlatives are the worst of… Continue reading Great Rules of Writing
10 Ways to Improve your Writing
“Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it.Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” William Faulkner 1. Take Mr.… Continue reading 10 Ways to Improve your Writing
A fine soft beautiful day
Sunday 27th December 1801 A fine soft beautiful, mild day with gleams of sunshine. I lay in bed till 12 o clock, Mr Clarkson’s man came, we wrote to him…Dorothy Wordsworth The Grasmere Journals I’ve kept a journal for more than 20 years. Some entries read like Wordsworth’s, simple observations of the weather, the garden and… Continue reading A fine soft beautiful day
The Fragrance of New Flowers
The writer spreads the fragrance of new flowers, an abundance of sprouting buds. Lu Chi (261-303), from The Art of Writing, translated by Sam Hamill The last month has been hurried…finishing up end of the year paperwork, opening a new business, and dealing with interruptions, changes and well, just normal life things. Often… Continue reading The Fragrance of New Flowers
Vintage Christmas Cat Postcards
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time. Laura Ingalls Wilder I spent about an hour yesterday at The City Auditorium attending an antique fair. It really put me in the mood for Christmas. It… Continue reading Vintage Christmas Cat Postcards
All speckled with stars
“We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.” Mark Twain For most children their first rhyming poem is “twinkle, twinkle little star”. Looking up into a clear dark night,… Continue reading All speckled with stars
Writing Funny
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road. Henry Ward Beecher I love to read funny books and blogs they can be serious too but with little elements of everyday humor they are more like life. Marion Keyes is one author who comes… Continue reading Writing Funny