Posts from the ‘writing’ category

Family stories

I’m writing a family memoir. I didn’t plan to write one. I set out to write my own story—not for publication necessarily, but for my kids…

Commas and outtakes

I wrote a story once about an ancestor named Sam Burgess—at least I thought he was my ancestor. “Imagining Sam Burgess” was a process piece assigned as part…

Rosehips in August

The prickly rose hips blush ever deeper as autumn pushes hard against my sultry August mornings. It won’t be long before summer disintegrates & drifts down stream to the…