Level-Up! Essence of Green :: Jan-Feb 2019
“Winter fights valiantly to hold the land. The earth and the sky are grey, leaden, and heavy with the cold. But here and there, scattered like jewels in the sodden grass, the first slender tips […]
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Lessons in Drafting Edits
I’ve talked about this book before, but The Felled Gods began as an idea in early 2014. In 2018, I gave it to a Beta Reader, who liked it, and […]
My Reading Challenge for 2019
For 2019, rather than focus on a number of books and rushing to reach the goal, I want to finish the books I’ve started. As usual, I AM still aiming for 12 […]
Word of the Year – 2019
Intention I debated different words for 2019, all a little less passive than my past ones. Since 2011, my previous words have included ‘strength‘, ‘connect‘, ‘improve‘, ‘settle‘, ‘kindness‘, ‘create‘, and […]
2019 :: Closing on 2018 and Mapping Out This Year
“Will somebody, let me see the light within the dark trees shadowing. What’s happenin? Looking through the glass find the wrong within the past knowing. We are youth. Cut until […]
Level-Up! Essence of Green :: December 2018
“The air is cold, metallic, sharp to breathe; scarves of woodsmoke drift in the sky over rooftops outlined with twinkling lights, and porch lamps gleam from early in the afternoon […]
Level-Up! Essence of Green :: October 2018
“A white lace of frost webs the sidewalk; a kaleidoscope of leaves. Hillsides are ablaze with flame-colored trees, fields lie fallow and dark, and cornstalks dry to the color of […]
Level-Up! Essence of Green :: September 2018
“Mist blankets the morning garden and the empty fields; a last rose blooms slowly over the arbor by the backyard gate. Paintbox leaves fall to the ground under galoshes and […]
The Autumn Feels
The weekend began with a gentle whisper. All was calm. That has been rare lately, I have to admit, but I took the space that was given. This week, I […]
Level-Up! Essence of Green :: August 2018
“The summer air is hot and still, the afternoon hazy; crickets call relentlessly from among the brown grasses, and ears of corn are the same heavy, burnished gold as the […]
