Delicious Autumn
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth, seeking the successive autumns. -George Eliot The colors […]
the writing life
I am a Dweller on the Threshold
It has taken four days to settle, to draw inward for a month-long stay at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico to compose stories…write this life….and it has taken four whole days, just
Doodle Mind and Writing
24 x 24 acrylic The idea for this painting originated in Italy; after observing a tiled, stylized cross in a church, the shape reminded me of Native American capes
Octavia Bit Into the Apple
Octavia bit into the apple. Its core of ancient seeds peered out at her. We are here, they
Cowgirl Dreams Do Come True
Vee Bar Ranch, Laramie, Wyoming Hoofbeats. Dust. Sun. Every morning just after sunrise, the horses gallop in on a rush from whatever pasture they leisurely roamed the night before.
Poetry Arrived…Faces
Poetry arrived….in search of me. I don’t know… I don’t know where it came from, from winter, or a river. I don’t know how or when… -Pablo Neruda I love
Consciousness has its own Coherence
I’m in the process of writing my memoirs of the last thirty years living in Alaska, which is an adventurous task (I took my first job out of graduate school