Only 70 more pages to go in Alice Zeniter’s L’Art de Perdre which I borrowed from the library. A wonderful novel following three generations of a family from pre-Independence Algeria to present-day France. I’ll share more…
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While I’m unlikely to learn the value of a good thick skirt for travel by falling into a jaguar pit — as did 19th-century traveller Mary Kingsley, whose skirt saved her from impalement on the…
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My puttering toward creative traction this week (see previous post) has included sorting through the “random abundance” of digital photos in my files (“ridiculous abundance” might be a more fitting description). I was doing this…
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Before we had the Four, the Almost-Seven, and their Dog for the weekend, I was over on “the island” taking a two-day Drawing from Nature workshop, and the days before that were busy as well…
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In my ongoing attention (see previous post) to the “random abundance” which Oregon writer Kim Stafford (in his book The Muses Among Us) is the matrix out of which “Coherence is born,” I pulled Paul…
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