

The poetry of seasonal change in everyday life (the AI-suggested title for my post today)
But no comments on the glory of spring or the weight of cherry blossoms on the tree or a haiku. However, the Haiku Generator...
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Apr 154 min read
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Can we get the genie back in the bottle?
from, of course, Edward Gorey Dear Loyal Reader: I feel a bit like I did as a child overdue on my thank you letters and opening every...
featherbooks
Mar 33 min read
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Autumn Leaves keep falling ...
The Polka Dot Bag My latest publication is a story I wrote about eight years ago was at last picked up by https://epistemiclit.com/curre...
featherbooks
Nov 24, 20244 min read
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Thinking of you all out there in the Evening as we fret, hope, stew and wait.
Cookies and books to read.
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Nov 5, 20244 min read
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There you are! Whatcha Been Doing?
Greetings loyal readers! Where has the summer gone? I looked back at various drafts I wrote intending to get a letter out to you all and...
featherbooks
Sep 20, 20245 min read
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Books, Books, Books
Books, Books, Books
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May 23, 20244 min read
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Springtime
We're very excited by the cherry blossoms which cover the street two blocks north of our house and fill us with hope and a desire to...
featherbooks
Mar 20, 20243 min read
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So here we are in 2024
Happy New Year - we made it to 2024! No resolutions here, but I like the idea of intentions i.e. write daily and submit work, breathe...
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Jan 24, 20245 min read
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We Made It to December!
Holiday Greetings! We are recovering from the loss of our treasured canine family member, Leo the Wonderdog, the pink-nosed Labradoodle,...
featherbooks
Dec 11, 20233 min read
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Nuts to the End of PDT! Somebody ought to pass a law!
Fall back this Sunday? Already? Nothing quite moves along like the changing of the clocks, but anything that moves us along will be...
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Nov 3, 20232 min read
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There comes a day each September when you wake up and know the summer is over and fall has arrived*
Crape Myrtle pruning from the Doc's tree up the alley Greetings to All - does September fill you with hope? Or distress that summer is...
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Sep 9, 20234 min read
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Evanescence is not just a rock band
Of late I'm preoccupied with the fleeting & frightening facts of life. A friend's only child was killed in a motorcycle crash. My...
featherbooks
Jul 28, 20234 min read
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Writing Workshop on the Umatilla Reservation June 2023
For a decade or so, I've attended Martha Gies' Traveler's Mind Workshops, writing for a week in Spain, Nicaragua, Colombia, India,...
featherbooks
Jun 29, 20233 min read
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Eat Breakfast, Read Books!
A word about breakfast: Michael eats it later. Leo skips it. I dive right in on awakening, even before coffee. An old favorite from my...
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May 10, 20232 min read
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Earth Day!
An Earth Day reminder from Dr. Loren Eisley (1907-1977): "Do not forget your brethren, nor the green wood from which you sprang. To do so...
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Apr 22, 20232 min read
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Cherry Blossoms, Blue Skies - can this be Seattle?
The morning is lost in newspapers, books and online reading. We take a family walk. The cherry trees are all abloom giving hope in what...
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Apr 14, 20232 min read
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“Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.” Ferlinghetti
Season's greetings if you are celebrating this weekend. We are lucky enough to have one Seder and two Easter meals lined up with at least...
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Apr 7, 20232 min read
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Want a postcard?
Would you like to get a postcard from me? Just let me know your address. I find I have a postcard from almost every place I've ever been,...
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Mar 14, 20231 min read
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Lucky and Grateful for Past Travels
Thinking of our 2011 trip to Eastern Turkey and Syria just before war, here is a link to a PBS article on where to send donations for...
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Feb 11, 20234 min read
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Georgian Fire is up!
Our garlic shoots are looking up Reminded yesterday by this writer https://alexandradanewrites.com/ of the importance of short, punchy...
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Feb 1, 20231 min read
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