Timing is Everything
Is anybody else worried about the tulips? In our corner of Groton, we still have a wintry torte of 24 inches of hard-packed snow finished off with crunchy ice crystal […]
Betsy Fitzgerald
Friends for Life, or Not
Winter this year is not whimsical. It’s two-foot deep hard packed snow, now turned icy. It’s temperatures that dip, and stay, in the teens. And it’s an economy tipped heavily toward unemployment. […]
Snip, clip voila Valentine
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would […]
The Sound of Writing
When I see someone with IPOD tucked in a pocket or strapped to his arm, part of me wonders why he isn’t writing. Music is my muse. I don’t know […]
Raining trees and writing
I sat with author Olivia Hoblitzelle on her back patio, talking about the re-release of her wonderful book, The Majesty of Your Loving, set for this fall. Originally an indie […]
Ridiculously Rhubarb
I’m a meditative cook. Sometimes when my writing is stalled, I take to the kitchen to clear the tangled pathways. The sift of flour, rhythmic swing of a chef’s knife, first […]