Window Thinking
Your chickens are just so good at being chickens! says my friend when I send her yet another picture of the girls. And it’s true!! That is exactly what they are good at!! I never imagined my love for these chickens. I had no interest in owning barnyard fowl. I have vague sensory memories from …
An epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of documents. The usual form is letters, although diary entries, newspaper clippings and other documents are sometimes used. (from Wikipedia) Realizing that I tend to like epistolary novels, I’ve been on the lookout for them and recently I found this clever book by Caroline Preston. Preston assembles real newspaper clippings, photos, and other period …
The boys and I listened to Where the Red Fern Grows this summer and I’ve been meaning to get back here to make this note….. About 1/3 of the way into the book, Billy has survived the Dog Wanting Disease and hunting season is about to begin. On the big opening day he cleans and …
The Thai Navy SEALS posted the announcement on their Facebook page a couple days ago and it landed in a headline on the front page of our paper: “We are not sure if this is a miracle, a science, or what. All the thirteen Wild Boars are now out of the cave.” Miracle. Science. Or …
BAM. Facebook served up a fabulous On This Day 2009 picture for me today. Dandelions in the hand of a child. I’ve been thinking about dandelions a lot lately because I’ve just wrapped up a 6 week writing class and for our first assignment we were supposed to “find some small thing and describe it in less than 500 …
I think a lot about “seeing” these days. For one thing, I live in a landscape so rich with crazy-beautiful stuff to see. I walk with a camera and I walk without. Two ways of seeing and they both pay loads of awesome in Alaska. One Sunday afternoon in May, Ethan and I took kayaks …