The phrase, “What goes around comes around,” rings especially true on a farm. As does, “You reap what you sow.” Harvest, a Family Affair When we began our oat harvest in April, my first thought was, Here we go again. My second thought was, Finally a return on our investment. Harvesting is a family affair. My […]
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Making Sense of Our lives through Story
When writing a post recently for Visionary Fiction Alliance about the relevance of visionary fiction in today’s world, I realized how important “story” is to our lives. I’m not just talking about the stories written by our favorite authors for our reading pleasure. I’m talking about our life stories, the stories that begin on page one of a blank […]
Writer Welcomes Mother Nature’s Distractions
Mother Nature’s Distractions Mother Nature speaks to us in a language we can all understand. It’s the most beautiful language in the world, because it stimulates all our senses and sends invaluable messages to help us navigate our life journey. During my morning walk today, it felt as if I were on a Hitchcock movie […]
Left Brain vs Right Brain Education in Fiction and Nonfiction
However, in my fourth novel, Between Now and Forever, where my protagonist Marjorie Veil takes on a class of troubled middle school students with psychic abilities, a question that naturally arises and becomes a major conflict in the story is the validity of emphasizing left brain vs right brain education in our schools. Why Left Brain vs Right Brain? The following video […]
Gate Crashing – By Invitation
Just so you know there’s more to my life than writing, let me introduce you to one of the events I regularly attend, put on by the Portuguese community to which my husband, an immigrant from Flores, Azores, belongs. Portuguese communities all over the world hold Holy Ghost Festas (pronounced FESH-tas) at different times of year to preserve […]
Is A Bad Memory Ever A Good Thing?
Can a bad memory be a good thing? “Yes,” says Robert Olen Butler, professor of creative writing at Florida State University. When you’re an artist. In From Where You Dream, he warns: If you are a writer who aspires to create fiction that arrives at the condition of art, your literal memory is your enemy. “Tell your […]
