Flower Riot and Paying Deep, Deep Attention

This week my second novel, Deadly Turn, was finally published. It’s taken years, with a long break for cancer treatment and then more time to revisit and recraft what I wrote years ago.

The novel and its drama take place deep in the Maine woods where wild flowers are often shy (Lady Slippers, Purple Trillium).

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Dreaded June Stuff. But great swamp video . . .

My June topic is the dreaded Synopsis (or plot summary). I suspect many readers cannot get into this type of dread, so I’ve paired the issue with something we can all DREAD: the June onslaught of bugs when every species gangs up on us or staggers their hungry waves so they overlap. (Don’t miss the they’re-still-laughing black fly video… below.)

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Forks in the Road: Chosen and Not Chosen

It’s been a month of choices and transitions, of learning, loss, and loving what might be small and also so very huge.

I will start with the smaller ones. And then get to Rupert.

I’ve made progress learning how to avoid the store by buying three weeks of food at once, letting dry goods “rest” to decontaminate, and (wearing gloves) “processing” the rest at the sink. My plan . . .

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Birds of a Feather, Not Flocking Together

Good news! Despite birders’ tendency to flock together in groups and share their spotting scopes, birding is actually a fine way to explore the outdoors with a friend or even grand-kids, without getting too close. You can drive separately, walk six feet apart but be close enough to ask, “What on earth was that?”

I once stood on a dirt road with the amazing Bob Duchesne while he . . .

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