Why Do I Write Novels?

Winter                                     First Moon of the New Year So, why do I write novels? In a writing group some years ago, maybe 20, a writing exercise turned into 120 pages of Even the Gods Must Die, a novel inspired […]

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An Old Draft Horse, Trained To The Plow

Samain                                          Moon of the Winter Solstice My first Latin day since before the cruise.  Today and probably next week, too, I’ll be getting myself back in the spirit and form of translating Ovid, refreshing vocabulary, […]

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Grounded

Lughnasa                               Waxing Back to School Moon Finished digging the potatoes.  The crop seems smaller than last year’s, but I can’t tell for sure.  Still, we don’t eat potatoes often and we have enough to last us quite awhile.  Kate made an early autumn roast vegetable medley with onions, carrots, leaks, garlic, beets and one potato […]

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The Sublime Gift

Beltane                                       Waning Planting Moon ” Life can’t bring you the sublime gift it has for you until you interrupt your pursuit of a mediocre gift.” Woolly brother Tom Crane sent this to me.  It took me back to my recent post about Siah Armajani and his personal commitment to staying within his skill set.  When […]

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This Is The Question I Face Now. One I Have Not Answered.

Spring            Waning Seed Moon Agency.  There’s been a lot written in psychology and history about agency.  We have agency when we can affect the flow of events in our own lives or in the world around us. (No, I’m not going to get into the subtle no-free-will arguments floating around.)  A lot of the historical […]

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At 50, What Next?

3  bar steep drop 30.16  0mph  NE  windchill 3  Samhain Waning Gibbous Moon of Long Nights My brother Mark asked me my thoughts on turning 50.  This April 11th he has his 50th.  By then it will be, as it always is, twelve years since I had that birthday. Twelve years ago is a long […]

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