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Island Life: Time to Split
Late one evening last winter, a tree fell down behind our house. It was at the edge of the back meadow, and had been ailing, though that had not yet been apparent to us. Weirdly, although that meadow...
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Island Life: And The Seasons Turn
Mt. Baker, from the top of Mt. Constitution Wasn’t it just summer a minute ago? I was going to go even farther and say, What happened to fall? We’ve gone straight to winter!, but that’s not quite...
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Island Life: Otterpocalypse II
Our house and pond, in more peaceful times. Early morning, a week or so ago. I’d just come downstairs, in my yoga clothes, ready for my daily strenuous yet peaceful and contemplative Ashtanga...
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Island Life: What We Did on Our Autumn Vacation
Since the start of the pandemic, we haven’t left the island much. This was not a huge hardship for us; we work at home, where we are comfortably situated and have plenty of room; we love it here. It’s...
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Island Life: Sinkhole Season
Our chocolate milk pond. Every time I say to myself, Self, enough blogging about the weather; surely there’s more interesting things to report on about island life!, something new happens. Like, EPIC...
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Island Life: The Year Ends As It Began
Photo by Edwin Hooper on Unsplash Last year at this time, we were finishing up nearly-a-year of pandemic. So many things had been canceled, closed, postponed. We celebrated a quiet Christmas with just...
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Books Read, 2021
Photo by Jez Timms on Unsplash Wow I read a lot of books last year. I keep a giant master spreadsheet, see; but I don’t tally anything up until New Year’s Day, when I come here to post about it; so as...
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Books Read, 2022
Photo by Matias North on Unsplash For my own record-keeping as much as anything else, I present: books I read in 2022! As I mention every year about this time, well okay at exactly this time, I keep a...
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Books Read, 2023
Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash I blog regularly. (Once a year is regular. Right?) Be that as it may, for my own record-keeping as well as for the two or three people who will read this, I present:...
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The Empress and The Moon–the Fourth and Final Book of the Nightcraft Quartet
…Suddenly, After a Mere Twenty Years… In the spring of 2004, I hit a dead end with my first novel. I’d constructed a detailed outline and drafted at least a hundred pages, but it just wasn’t working....
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