Summer Reading

Summer Reading

Hello friends, Summer-time and reading on the deck, at the cottage, on the beach. What are you reading this summer? What’s the best summer book you ever read? Please share your suggestions in the “Leave a reply” box. The May newsletter profiled four...
The Creative Process

The Creative Process

Consider this sparkling dialogue in The Long Way Home by Louise Penny: Clara asked Ruth: “How do your poems start out?” “They start as a lump in the throat,” she said. “Isn’t that normally just a cocktail olive lodged there?” Olivier asked. “Once,” Ruth admitted....
What’s On Your Bookshelf?

What’s On Your Bookshelf?

My bookshelf is newly organized as I brought office-living books home. The home books were generous. They moved aside and made space. In the process of touching every book and finding its spot, I noticed how many books I haven’t read. You too? Here’s a...