Sunday Inspiration: Falling Down
Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it… If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing…
Read MoreThe “Joys” of Technology
Mercury isn’t even in retrograde. I just checked, because despite my skepticism about all things astrological, I want to blame my techie failures in the past twenty-four hours on the alignment of the stars. No such luck, though. Even astrology has failed me. I’m stuck with my own mistakes, me and the increasingly complicated life…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: “A Real Life”
So here’s what I wanted to tell you today: get a life. A real life, not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house. Do you think you’d care so very much about those things if you blew an aneurysm one afternoon, or found a lump in your breast? Get…
Read MoreKickstarting Veronica Mars, or Who’s in Charge of What You Read or Watch?
What an exciting time to be an artist, writer, film maker. Not to mention all those other professions or hobbies where imagination reigns. This afternoon a friend and I regaled each other with stories about the way our beloved publishing profession has changed. Even though publishers don’t always acknowledge this, no longer do authors listen…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: the Spring Equinox
This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. I share these words…
Read MoreWedding Ring “Quilt Along With” Giveaway
I love the approach of a book launch, even when the book was well and truly launched almost nine years ago. Now Wedding Ring, the first book of the Shenandoah Album series, is about to be re-launched on March 26th, in a new format and with a brand new cover. Recently I blogged about the way…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: An Irish Blessing
Dear Lord, Give me a few friends who will love me for what I am, and keep ever burning before my vagrant steps the kindly light of hope… And though I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me to be thankful for life, and for time’s olden memories that are…
Read MoreThe Write Way: When Drama Becomes Melodrama.
I am an unabashed fan of Les Miserables, the show and the movie. I suspect I would like the book, as well, although having picked it up at Books-A-Million yesterday, I realized I would need a camel caravan to carry it home. But Les Mis (and The Christmas Carol) are productions I never miss in…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: “The Ebb and Flow of Life”
“We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid that it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in…
Read MoreMaking Muckles Out of Mickles or Why Mira is reissuing the Shenandoah Album Novels
What are Muckles and Mickles you say and what in the world do they have to do with Emilie’s novels? What, have you no Scots blood–as do many people in the Shenandoah Valley? “Many a mickle makes a muckle,” means that if you carefully accumulate many little things, you’ll end up with something larger and…
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