Whoa. Just Backup.

Imbolc                                       Woodpecker Moon Woodpecker hacking away this morning as I awoke.  Yesterday the crows cawed, setting on the branches of our big cottonwoods, 40 feet or so off the ground. A few snow flakes fluttered to […]

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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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Why Write Novels At All

Winter                                    First Moon of the New Year I’ll respond to this in another post, but for those of you interested in the novel, it’s worth a read.  You can reach the whole article through the central question link. […]

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On Moving Toward Doing the Work Only I Can Do

Winter                              First Moon of the New Year Spent yesterday shifting to my new work schedule.  A couple of hours on Ovid, plus analyzing some of Caesar’s Gallic Wars.  Edited three portions of the Tailte Mythos:  Book I and began clipping postings […]

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Home Is Where the Garlic Is

Imbolc                                       Waxing Bloodroot Moon This journey has begun to bend toward home.  I”m more eager know to go home than I was to come here when I left.  That seems good to me.  Home is the place you know you’re away from when you’re gone.  No place else on earth has that lodestone attraction for […]

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A dark and stormy day

Lughnasa                        Waxing Harvest Moon When the storm clouds rolled in on Tuesday, I went into a writing place almost immediately.  My novel bones got itchy, wanted to scratch out a new book.  Fall, as it gets darker and grimmer, colder somehow turns a creative crank, my engine sputters to life. Life’s richness right now jolts […]

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More Radical Than Thou

80  bar falls 29.66  0mph E  dew-point 76!  sunrise 5:55  sunset 8:43  Summer Waning Crescent of the Thunder Moon Jerry Stearns sent word that he worked with rebels in Central America and served a stint as a bodyguard for Rigoberta Minchu, the Mayan activist.  This reminded me, though I don’t think it was his intent, […]

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Steamed Dumplings Stuffed With Yak

78  bar steady  30.03  0mph ENE dew-point 56  Summer, warm and sunny Waning Gibbous Thunder Moon A trifecta.  In to Minnehaha.  Back to Andover.  In to Kenwood.  Back to Andover.  In to Sierra Club and the MIA.  Back to Andover.  Geez.  As I said, I gotta check with my scheduler. Katarina is an intern from […]

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Novels In Vitro

48  bar rises 29.83  1mph NW dewpoint 38  Beltane             First Quarter of the Hare Moon Once again the papers and books pile up while I focus on the task du jour, getting the garden planted, cleaned up, preened, weeded and planned. Significant news on the hydroponic front.  The heirloom tomato plant I’ve kept inside […]

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