featherbooks
- Nov 3
- 2 min
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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featherbooks
- Sep 9
- 4 min
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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featherbooks
- Jul 28
- 4 min
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...
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featherbooks
- Jun 29
- 3 min
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,...
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featherbooks
- May 10
- 2 min
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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featherbooks
- Apr 22
- 2 min
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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featherbooks
- Apr 14
- 2 min
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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featherbooks
- Apr 7
- 2 min
“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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featherbooks
- Mar 14
- 1 min
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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featherbooks
- Feb 11
- 4 min
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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featherbooks
- Feb 1
- 1 min
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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featherbooks
- Dec 23, 2022
- 1 min
Holiday Greetings
After fumbling around on Spotify for unique and mood appropriate Christmas music, I opened an email from Author Natalie Serber, and...
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featherbooks
- Dec 16, 2022
- 1 min
All I want for Christmas are books
Books, books, books December 16, 2022 Not only do you have suggestions below of my top reads this year, here are some ideas from...
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featherbooks
- Nov 23, 2022
- 2 min
Thanksgiving
"Tell me something you’re thankful for. It can be as abstract or concrete as you want. (Examples: “My health” or “Reese’s Pieces” or “the...
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featherbooks
- Oct 21, 2022
- 1 min
Red, red rose
Autumn came in on little cat's feet, what was it that traversed on "cat's feet?" Fog? Sandburg, ah, yes, thank you Google. But today for...
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featherbooks
- Oct 15, 2022
- 2 min
An Electric Car?
At the beginning of the year, we put money down on a plug-in hybrid SUV with a gas tank and electrical system to buzz around town. No...
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featherbooks
- Sep 26, 2022
- 2 min
SMOKE-FILLED ROOM
Where to start? After a life of fun, how does a retired librarian reel in new followers? Will readers of TROUBLE WITH FUN: a romp with...
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