Fiction, Essay, Photography … Sometimes Vampires
Calling all e-book readers! I was tempted to put this update at the end, but here it is first thing: my essay about a bad vacation and learning to read tarot came out as a chapbook a few years ago, but was re-released this month with a new cover and e-reader option. And less than… Continue reading I do not count blooms, or steps
It's spring break, as in: spring took a break and went back underground. It's barely above freezing and I cannot remember the last time I saw blue sky. This week, the March wind was so strong it knocked over my Front Yard T-Rex, about which children and their parents shout out to me, saying how… Continue reading I AM ALIVE EVEN THROUGH DARK WINTER!
I'm struggling to remember where I last left off ... I think the day before a 40th birthday celebration with paint-and-sip, a bookstore, a vintage candy shop, and a German beer hall where I had three entire sips of beer + some potato pancakes. Philadelphia doth provide! And hey, the Philly Inquirer says we are… Continue reading The Wedding Season
Only one week of summer left! I am craving autumn coziness and have been welcoming fall for a few weeks already. Back in the Flow StateI paid a trusted literary press for feedback so I could begin a first-chapter novel rewrite. Which loosens a number of strings across the whole project and leads to a… Continue reading No-Slump September
First cherry blossoms of the year spotted in Collingswood, NJ Early in my postpartum life I joked that I was making a list of songs that made me cry, out of love and overbrimming emotion, while singing to my baby. But let's get real: It's all of them, at one time or another. That said,… Continue reading But green is the color of spring!